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1959

Porgy and Bess

Directed by Otto Preminger
Introducing a new era in motion pictures!

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.

Duration

2h 18m

Released

June 24, 1959

Revenue

$3,500,000

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Rating24

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Cast15

  • Sidney Poitier
  • Dorothy Dandridge
  • Sammy Davis Jr.
  • Pearl Bailey
  • Brock Peters
  • Diahann Carroll
  • Leslie Scott
  • Ruth Attaway
  • Claude Akins

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