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Porgy and Bess
1959, Jun 24
2h 18m
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.
Directed by
Otto Preminger
Diahann Carroll
Clara
Claude Akins
Detective
Sidney Poitier
Porgy
Sammy Davis Jr.
Sportin' Life
Dorothy Dandridge
Bess
Brock Peters
Crowne
Nichelle Nichols
Dancer
Pearl Bailey
Maria
Scatman Crothers
Crabman
Ruth Attaway
Serena Robbins
Maya Angelou
Dancer
Clarence Muse
Peter
Ken Darby
Ivan Dixon
Jim
Leslie Scott
Jake
Everdinne Wilson
Annie
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