Porgy and Bess
Film1959138 min6.3/10 on TMDB
Directed by Otto Preminger
The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!
The story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Sidney PoitierPorgy
Dorothy Dandridge
Sammy Davis Jr.Sportin' Life
Pearl BaileyMaria
Brock PetersCrowne
Diahann CarrollClara
Leslie ScottJake
Ruth AttawaySerena Robbins
Claude AkinsDetective
Clarence MusePeter
Ivan DixonJimExplore the crew
- Director
- Otto Preminger
- Screenplay
- N. Richard Nash
- Producer
- Samuel Goldwyn
- Original Music Composer
- Ken Darby
- Director of Photography
- Leon Shamroy
- Editor
- Daniel Mandell
- Original Music Composer
- George Gershwin