Porgy and Bess

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6.3

NR

Genre: Music Drama Romance
Release year: 1959
Running time: 138 min
Country: United States of America

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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Ivan Dixon
Jim
Claude Akins
Detective
Brock Peters
Crowne
Nichelle Nichols
Dancer
Sidney Poitier
Porgy
Sammy Davis Jr.
Sportin' Life
Diahann Carroll
Clara
Scatman Crothers
Crabman

Otto Preminger
Director
N. Richard Nash
Screenplay
Irene Sharaff
Costume Design
Ira Gershwin
Lyricist
Hermes Pan
Choreographer
Samuel Goldwyn
Producer
Leon Shamroy
Director of Photography
Ken Darby
Original Music Composer

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