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24/06/1959 Music, Drama, Romance 2h 18m
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The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!

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.

  1. Otto Preminger

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Sidney Poitier

    Porgy

  2. Dorothy Dandridge

    Bess

  3. Sammy Davis Jr.

    Sportin' Life

  4. Pearl Bailey

    Maria

  5. Brock Peters

    Crowne

  6. Diahann Carroll

    Clara

  7. Leslie Scott

    Jake

  8. Ruth Attaway

    Serena Robbins

  9. Claude Akins

    Detective

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Full Cast & Crew

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$7,000,000.00

Revenue
$3,500,000.00

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