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

Samuel Goldwyn
Producer
Joseph C. Wright
Art Direction
Ira Gershwin
Lyricist
Irene Sharaff
Costume Design
Otto Preminger
Director
Leon Shamroy
Director of Photography
Howard Bristol
Set Decoration
Layne Britton
Makeup Artist

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