Porgy and Bess
Porgy and Bess
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Production Companies
- Samuel Goldwyn Productions
- Columbia Pictures
Overview
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.
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Cast
Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters , View More
Diahann Carroll, Leslie Scott, Ruth Attaway, Claude Akins, Clarence Muse, Everdinne Wilson, Ivan Dixon, Scatman Crothers, Maya Angelou, Nichelle Nichols
Crew
Otto Preminger, Dorothy Heyward, DuBose Heyward, N. Richard Nash, Samuel Goldwyn , View More
Ken Darby, Leon Shamroy, Daniel Mandell, Oliver Smith, Howard Bristol, Irene Sharaff, Fred Lau, Serge Krizman, Joseph C. Wright, Layne Britton, Frank McCoy, Hermes Pan, Paul Helmick, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin, Fred Lau, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward
