Porgy and Bess

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6.2

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
Nichelle Nichols
Dancer
Brock Peters
Crowne
Scatman Crothers
Crabman
Sidney Poitier
Porgy
Diahann Carroll
Clara
Sammy Davis Jr.
Sportin' Life
Pearl Bailey
Maria

Otto Preminger
Director
Hermes Pan
Choreographer
George Gershwin
Songs
Samuel Goldwyn
Producer
Layne Britton
Makeup Artist
Daniel Mandell
Editor
Leon Shamroy
Director of Photography
Paul Helmick
Assistant Director

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