Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess

Released on
Music, Drama, Romance
Runtime
138 mins
(22 votes)

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves 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

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