Porgy and Bess
The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!
1959-06-24 | 138 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Sidney PoitierPorgy
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Dorothy DandridgeBess
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Sammy Davis Jr.Sportin' Life
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Pearl BaileyMaria
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Brock PetersCrowne
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Diahann CarrollClara
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Leslie ScottJake
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Ruth AttawaySerena Robbins
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Claude AkinsDetective
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Clarence MusePeter
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Ivan DixonJim
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Scatman CrothersCrabman
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Maya AngelouDancer
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Nichelle NicholsDancer
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