Porgy and Bess

Directed by Otto Preminger
Not Rated
1959    2h 18m[Musical](/on-demand/category/musical), [Drama](/on-demand/category/drama)
6.971%77%6.3
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 of Porgy and Bess

  • Sidney PoitierPorgy
  • Dorothy DandridgeBess
  • Sammy Davis Jr.Sportin' Life
  • Pearl BaileyMaria
  • Brock PetersCrowne
  • Diahann CarrollClara
  • Leslie ScottJake
  • Ruth AttawaySerena Robbins
  • Claude AkinsDetective
  • Clarence MusePeter
  • Everdinne WilsonAnnie
  • Ivan DixonJim
  • Scatman CrothersCrabman
  • Maya AngelouDancer
  • Nichelle NicholsDancer
  • Otto PremingerDirector
  • N. Richard NashScreenplay
  • Samuel GoldwynProducer
  • Howard BristolSet Decoration
  • Oliver SmithProduction Design

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