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Porgy and Bess (1959)

Porgy and Bess (1959)

Drama Romance Music

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

Release Date: 1959, June 24
Directors: Otto Preminger
Countries: United States of America
Production: Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Cast: Scatman Crothers, Pearl Bailey, Sidney Poitier, Claude Akins, Brock Peters, Sammy Davis Jr., Nichelle Nichols, Clarence Muse, Ruth Attaway, Leslie Scott, Diahann Carroll, Maya Angelou

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.

Keywords:

musical fisherman 1900s south carolina based on opera charleston