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Porgy and Bess

Introducing a new era in motion pictures!

24 Jun 1959
  • United States of America
138 mins
6.1
24 votes
  • Music
  • Drama
  • Romance
articleOverview personCast
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.

  • 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

  • Everdinne Wilson

    as Annie

  • Ivan Dixon

    as Jim

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