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

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