Porgy and Bess

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Porgy and Bess

Music

Drama

Romance

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.

Date: 06/24/1959

Rating: 6.1

Cast: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters, Diahann Carroll, Leslie Scott, Ruth Attaway, Claude Akins, Clarence Muse, Everdinne Wilson, Ivan Dixon, Scatman Crothers, Maya Angelou, Nichelle Nichols

Sidney Poitier