Porgy and Bess

June. 24,1959      
Rating:
6.9
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Sidney Poitier as  Porgy
Dorothy Dandridge as  Bess
Sammy Davis Jr. as  Sportin' Life
Pearl Bailey as  Maria
Brock Peters as  Crowne
Diahann Carroll as  Clara
Leslie Scott as  Jake
Ruth Attaway as  Serena Robbins
Claude Akins as  Detective
Clarence Muse as  Peter

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