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Porgy and Bess
The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!
6.3(27) 1959 138 min United States of America English
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.
Director
Otto Preminger
Status
Released
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Sidney Poitier
Porgy
Dorothy Dandridge
Bess
Sammy Davis Jr.
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Pearl Bailey
Maria
Brock Peters
Crowne
Diahann Carroll
Clara
Leslie Scott
Jake
Ruth Attaway
Serena Robbins
Claude Akins
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Clarence Muse
Peter
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Ivan Dixon
Jim
Scatman Crothers
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