Porgy and Bess
Jun 24 1959
•2h 18m
•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.
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Sidney Poitier
Porgy
Dorothy Dandridge
Bess
Sammy Davis Jr.
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