Overview
Plot
In the early 1900s, Catfish Row in Charleston, South Carolina, is home to a Black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who gets around in a goat-drawn cart, loves Bess, a drug-addicted woman living with the bullying stevedore Crown.
- Directors
- Otto Preminger
- Cast
- Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters, Diahann Carroll, Leslie Scott, Ruth Attaway, Claude Akins, Clarence Muse, Everdinne Wilson, Ivan Dixon, Scatman Crothers, Maya Angelou, Nichelle Nichols
- Country
- United States of America
- Genre
- Music, Drama, Romance
- Release date
- 1959-06-24
- Studios
- Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Plot
Warning: spoilers
Porgy and Bess Plot and Cast
Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, the story centers on a Black fishing community. Porgy, a crippled beggar who travels by goat-drawn cart, is in love with Bess, a drug-addicted woman who lives with Crown, the local bully and a stevedore.
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