Porgy and Bess
★ 6.3/10•1959•2h 18m•NR•Music•Drama•Romance
The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!
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.
Otto Preminger · Director
N. Richard Nash · Screenplay
StatusReleased
Runtime2h 18m
LanguageEN
Release DateJun 24, 1959
Budget$7,000,000
Revenue$3,500,000
StatusReleased
Runtime2h 18m
LanguageEN
Release DateJun 24, 1959
Budget$7,000,000
Revenue$3,500,000
Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Actors
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
Annie
Ivan Dixon
Jim
Scatman Crothers
Crabman
Maya Angelou
Dancer
Nichelle Nichols
Dancer
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