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    Porgy and Bess

    138'

    1959-06-24

    6.3

    The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!

    Music,Drama,Romance

    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.

    DirectingOtto PremingerWritingDorothy Heyward

    Cast

    2

    Porgy

    Sidney Poitier

    1

    Bess

    Dorothy Dandridge

    1

    Sportin' Life

    Sammy Davis Jr.

    1

    Maria

    Pearl Bailey

    1

    Crowne

    Brock Peters

    1

    Clara

    Diahann Carroll

    1

    Jake

    Leslie Scott

    1

    Serena Robbins

    Ruth Attaway

    2

    Detective

    Claude Akins

    1

    Peter

    Clarence Muse

    1

    Annie

    Everdinne Wilson

    1

    Jim

    Ivan Dixon

    2

    Crabman

    Scatman Crothers

    1

    Dancer

    Maya Angelou

    2

    Dancer

    Nichelle Nichols

    Details:

    • Budget: 7000000
    • Home page
    • Revenue: 3500000
    • List of countries:
      1. United States of America
    • List of languages:
      1. English
    • List of companies:
      1. Samuel Goldwyn Productions
    • Vote Count: 27
    • Popularity: 0.8399
    • Status: Released
    • Original title:Porgy and Bess

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