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Porgy and Bess
The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!
6.3(27)19592h 18m
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.
- Director
- Otto Preminger
- Writers
- N. Richard Nash
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Cast
Sidney Poitier
Porgy
Dorothy Dandridge
Bess
Sammy Davis Jr.
Sportin' Life
Pearl Bailey
Maria
Brock Peters
Crowne
Diahann Carroll
Clara
Leslie Scott
Jake
Ruth Attaway
Serena Robbins
Claude Akins
Detective
Clarence Muse
Peter
Everdinne Wilson
Annie
Ivan Dixon
Jim
Scatman Crothers
Crabman
Maya Angelou
Dancer
Nichelle Nichols
Dancer
Crew
Directing
- Otto PremingerDirector
- Paul HelmickAssistant Director
Writing
- Dorothy HeywardTheatre Play
- DuBose HeywardTheatre Play
- N. Richard NashScreenplay
- Ira GershwinLyricist
- Ira GershwinBook
- DuBose HeywardBook
Production
- Samuel GoldwynProducer
Camera
- Leon ShamroyDirector of Photography
Editing
- Daniel MandellEditor
Sound
- Ken DarbyOriginal Music Composer
- Fred LauSound Designer
- George GershwinSongs
- George GershwinOriginal Music Composer
- Fred LauSound Recordist
Art
- Oliver SmithProduction Design
- Howard BristolSet Decoration
- Serge KrizmanArt Direction
- Joseph C. WrightArt Direction
Costume & Make-Up
- Irene SharaffCostume Design
- Frank McCoyMakeup Artist
- Layne BrittonMakeup Artist
Crew
- Hermes PanChoreographer