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Porgy and Bess

The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!

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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.

  • Release date
  • June 24, 1959
  • Runtime
  • 138 min
  • Genres
  • Music, Drama, Romance
  • Director
  • Otto Preminger

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Sidney Poitier photo Sidney Poitier Porgy Dorothy Dandridge photo Dorothy Dandridge Bess Sammy Davis Jr. photo Sammy Davis Jr. Sportin' Life Pearl Bailey photo Pearl Bailey Maria Brock Peters photo Brock Peters Crowne Diahann Carroll photo Diahann Carroll Clara Leslie Scott photo Leslie Scott Jake Ruth Attaway photo Ruth Attaway Serena Robbins

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