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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
Dorothy Dandridge
Bess
Sidney Poitier
Porgy
Sammy Davis Jr.
Sportin' Life
Ivan Dixon
Jim
Claude Akins
Detective
Scatman Crothers
Crabman
Diahann Carroll
Clara
Nichelle Nichols
Dancer
Brock Peters
Crowne
Maya Angelou
Dancer
Pearl Bailey
Maria
Clarence Muse
Peter
Ruth Attaway
Serena Robbins
Leslie Scott
Jake
Everdinne Wilson
Annie
Ken Darby
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