Porgy and Bess

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6.1

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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Scatman Crothers
Crabman
Dorothy Dandridge
Bess
Sammy Davis Jr.
Sportin' Life
Ivan Dixon
Jim
Claude Akins
Detective
Brock Peters
Crowne
Ruth Attaway
Serena Robbins
Maya Angelou
Dancer

Joseph C. Wright
Art Direction
Samuel Goldwyn
Producer
Irene Sharaff
Costume Design
Leon Shamroy
Director of Photography
George Gershwin
Songs
Ira Gershwin
Lyricist
Daniel Mandell
Editor
Serge Krizman
Art Direction

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