Porgy and Bess

Music • Drama • Romance

61%
Porgy and Bess
Porgy and Bess
Unrated
6/24/19592h 18m

Theatrical Release (US)

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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

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$7,000,000.00

Revenue:

$3,500,000.00

Key words:

  • fisherman
  • musical
  • south carolina
  • based on opera
  • charleston
  • 1900s

Cast

Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier

~ as ~

Porgy

Dorothy Dandridge

Dorothy Dandridge

~ as ~

Bess

Sammy Davis Jr.

Sammy Davis Jr.

~ as ~

Sportin' Life

Pearl Bailey

Pearl Bailey

~ as ~

Maria

Brock Peters

Brock Peters

~ as ~

Crowne

Diahann Carroll

Diahann Carroll

~ as ~

Clara

Leslie Scott

Leslie Scott

~ as ~

Jake

Ruth Attaway

Ruth Attaway

~ as ~

Serena Robbins

Claude Akins

Claude Akins

~ as ~

Detective

Clarence Muse

Clarence Muse

~ as ~

Peter

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