1959
6.1 (24 votes)
2h 18m
Genres
Music
Drama
Romance
Production Companies
Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures
Porgy and Bess
Introducing a new era in motion pictures!
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.
Key Crew
Director: Otto Preminger
Screenplay: N. Richard Nash
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Director of Photography: Leon Shamroy
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
