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Porgy and Bess
The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!
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June 24, 1959
Creator / Director / Author
Otto Preminger
Runtime
138 min
Rating
6.3 / 10
Cast
Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters, Diahann Carroll, Leslie Scott, Ruth Attaway
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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