Movie
Porgy and Bess
“The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!”
MusicDramaRomance
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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Details
- Directed by
- Otto Preminger
- Released
- 24 Jun 1959
- Status
- Released
- Language
- English
- Studio
- Samuel Goldwyn Productions
- Budget
- $7,000,000
- Box office
- $3,500,000
- Votes
- 27 on TMDB
Cast
Sidney PoitierPorgy
Dorothy DandridgeBess
Sammy Davis Jr.Sportin' Life
Pearl BaileyMaria
Brock PetersCrowne
Diahann CarrollClara
Leslie ScottJake
Ruth AttawaySerena Robbins
Claude AkinsDetective
Clarence MusePeter- EEverdinne WilsonAnnie
Ivan DixonJim
Scatman CrothersCrabman
Maya AngelouDancer
