Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess

138 mins | Drama, Romance, Music | June 24, 1959

Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the story focuses on the titular characters, crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, and the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

Porgy and Bess

138 mins | Drama, Romance, Music | June 24, 1959

Porgy and Bess
Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the story focuses on the titular characters, crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, and the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers Columbia Pictures, Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Original title Porgy and Bess
Directors Paul Helmick, Otto Preminger
Writers N. Richard Nash, DuBose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward

Cast

Sidney Poitier

as Porgy

Sammy Davis Jr.

as Sportin' Life

Pearl Bailey

as Maria

Brock Peters

as Crowne

Diahann Carroll

as Clara

Leslie Scott

as Jake

Ruth Attaway

as Serena Robbins

Claude Akins

as Detective

Clarence Muse

as Peter

Everdinne Wilson

as Annie

Ivan Dixon

as Jim

Scatman Crothers

as Crabman

Maya Angelou

as Dancer

Nichelle Nichols

as Dancer