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Porgy and Bess
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Porgy and Bess

1959
Directed byOtto Preminger
2h 18m

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.

CAST
Sidney PoitierPorgyDorothy DandridgeBessSammy Davis Jr.Sportin' Life
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Pearl Bailey
Maria
Brock PetersCrowne
Diahann CarrollClara
Leslie ScottJake
Ruth AttawaySerena Robbins
Claude AkinsDetective
Clarence MusePeter
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GENRES
MusicDramaRomance
STATUSReleased
PRODUCTION
Samuel Goldwyn Productions
RATING
6.3

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