Porgy and Bess
- Released on
Music, Drama, Romance
•- Runtime
- 138 mins
(21 votes)
Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the story focuses on the titular characters, crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, and the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the story focuses on the titular characters, crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, and the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
Cast
- Sidney Poitier
- Dorothy Dandridge
- Sammy Davis Jr.
- Pearl Bailey
- Brock Peters
- Diahann Carroll
- Leslie Scott
- Ruth Attaway
- Claude Akins
- Clarence Muse
- Everdinne Wilson
- Ivan Dixon
- Scatman Crothers
- Maya Angelou
- Nichelle Nichols
Director
- Otto Preminger
Producers
- Samuel Goldwyn
Screenwriter
- N. Richard Nash
