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Porgy and Bess (1959)
Directed by Otto Preminger
“The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!”
Music, Drama, Romance · 2h 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.
Cast
Sidney Poitier
Dorothy Dandridge
Sammy Davis Jr.
Pearl Bailey
Brock Peters
Diahann Carroll
Leslie Scott
Ruth Attaway
Claude Akins
Clarence Muse
Ivan Dixon
Crew
- Director
- Otto Preminger
- Screenplay
- N. Richard Nash
- Director of Photography
- Leon Shamroy
- Original Music Composer
- Ken Darby, George Gershwin
- Editor
- Daniel Mandell
- Producer
- Samuel Goldwyn
Details
- Release date
- 1959-06-24
- Runtime
- 2h 18m
- Genres
- Music, Drama, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Samuel Goldwyn Productions
- Budget
- $7,000,000
- Box office
- $3,500,000