Porgy and Bess

Name: Porgy and Bess
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters

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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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Cast & Crew

Director: Otto PremingerWriter: N. Richard NashProducer: Samuel Goldwyn

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

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