Film

Porgy and Bess 1959

138 min TMDB 6.3 Music Drama Romance

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

  • 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

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