Porgy and Bess(1959)
The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!
6.3(27)2h 18m1959-06-24
MusicDramaRomance
Overview
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
- Writers:
- Dorothy Heyward, DuBose Heyward, N. Richard Nash
- Producers:
- Samuel Goldwyn
- Cinematographer:
- Leon Shamroy
- Composer:
- Ken Darby
- Production:
- Samuel Goldwyn Productions
- Budget:
- $7,000,000
- Revenue:
- $3,500,000
- Status:
- Released
Trailer
Cast
Sidney Poitier
Porgy
Dorothy Dandridge
Bess
Sammy Davis Jr.
Sportin' Life
Pearl Bailey
Maria
Brock Peters
Crowne
Diahann Carroll
Clara
Leslie Scott
Jake
Ruth Attaway
Serena Robbins
Claude Akins
Detective
Clarence Muse
Peter
Everdinne Wilson
Everdinne Wilson
Annie
Ivan Dixon
Jim
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