Porgy and Bess
movie
View on VideBits →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 & crew
Claude Akins · Clarence Muse · Ira Gershwin · Dorothy Dandridge · N. Richard Nash · Brock Peters · Sidney Poitier · Leslie Scott · Sammy Davis Jr. · Otto Preminger · Pearl Bailey · Diahann Carroll · Ruth Attaway · DuBose Heyward