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Introducing a new era in motion pictures! - Porgy and Bess
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Title: Porgy and Bess

Release Date: 24 Jun 1959

Runtime: 2h 18m

Genre: Music, Drama, Romance

Director: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Columbia Pictures

Production Companies: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Columbia Pictures

Overview: 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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Average Vote: 6.1 (24 votes)

Cast

  • Porgy: Sidney Poitier
  • Bess: Dorothy Dandridge
  • Sportin' Life: Sammy Davis Jr.
  • Maria: Pearl Bailey
  • Crowne: Brock Peters
  • Clara: Diahann Carroll
  • Jake: Leslie Scott
  • Serena Robbins: Ruth Attaway
  • Detective: Claude Akins
  • Peter: Clarence Muse
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