Porgy and Bess

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6.146

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

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

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