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