Porgy and Bess
The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!
June 24, 1959
138 min
NR
✓ Released 24574 days ago
Music
Drama
Romance
6.3
User Score
27 votes
About
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.
Movie Info
Status: Released
Director: Otto Preminger
Runtime: 138 min
Budget: $7,000,000
Revenue: $3,500,000
Top Cast
Sidney Poitier
Porgy
Dorothy Dandridge
Bess
Sammy Davis Jr.
Sportin' Life
Pearl Bailey
Maria
Brock Peters
Crowne
Diahann Carroll
Clara
Leslie Scott
Jake
Ruth Attaway
Serena Robbins
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