Porgy and Bess
The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!
6.3(27) 1959-06-24 138 minMusicDramaRomance
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.
ProducerSamuel Goldwyn
Original Music ComposerKen Darby
ScreenplayN. Richard Nash
DirectorOtto Preminger
Original Music ComposerGeorge Gershwin
Cast & characters
Sidney Poitier
as Porgy
Dorothy Dandridge
as Bess
Sammy Davis Jr.
as Sportin' Life
Pearl Bailey
as Maria
Brock Peters
as Crowne
Diahann Carroll
as Clara
Leslie Scott
as Jake
Ruth Attaway
as Serena Robbins
Claude Akins
as Detective
Clarence Muse
as Peter
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Everdinne Wilson
as Annie
Ivan Dixon
as Jim
Scatman Crothers
as Crabman
Maya Angelou
as Dancer
Nichelle Nichols
as Dancer
