Porgy and Bess
“Introducing a new era in motion pictures!”
6.1
1959
2h 18m
MusicDramaRomance
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.
Key Crew
Director
Otto Preminger
Producers
Samuel Goldwyn
Writers
N. Richard Nash
Cinematography
Leon Shamroy
Music
Ken Darby
Cast (15)
Sidney Poitier
Porgy
Dorothy Dandridge
Bess
