Porgy and Bess
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Starring: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters
Writer: DuBose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward, N. Richard Nash, Ira Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
Release Date:
June 24, 1959
June 24, 1959
Ratings:
6.1 / 10
6.1 / 10
Director:
Otto Preminger
Otto Preminger
Companies:
Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Samuel Goldwyn Productions
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.
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