Porgy and Bess

Release Date:
Jun 24, 1959
Running Time:
2:18
Genre:
Drama,Musical,Romance
Director:
Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
Cast:
Sidney Poitier Porgy
Dorothy Dandridge Bess
Sammy Davis Jr. Sportin' Life
Pearl Bailey Maria
Brock Peters Crown
Leslie Scott Jake
Diahann Carroll Clara
Ruth Attaway Serena Robbins
Clarence Muse Peter
Everdinne Wilson Annie
Joel Fluellen Robbins
Earl Jackson Mingo
Margaret Hairston Lily
Ivan Dixon Jim
Antoine Durousseau Scipio
Helen Thigpen Strawberry woman
William Walker Undertaker
Roy Glenn Frazier
Maurice Manson Coroner
Claude Akins Detective
Producers:
Samuel Goldwyn
Writers:
N. Richard Nash
Language:
English
Related Programs:
South Pacific
Cabin in the Sky
West Side Story
Show Boat
The Mayor of 44th Street
U-Carmen Ekhayelitsha

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Porgy and Bess

This musical drama focuses on the poverty-stricken residents struggling to survive in the Charleston tenement of Catfish Row. The sultry Bess becomes the object of desire of Porgy, a disabled man who gets around in a cart. But Bess is also involved with thuggish Crown and drug dealer Sportin' Life . Crown kills a man and goes into hiding, and Bess seeks shelter with Porgy. But, when Crown returns, Porgy must take a stand.

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