
Porgy and Bess
Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the story focuses on the titular characters, crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, and the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
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Director: Otto Preminger, Paul Helmick
Actors: Brock Peters, Clarence Muse, Claude Akins, Diahann Carroll, Dorothy Dandridge, Leslie Scott, Pearl Bailey, Ruth Attaway, Sammy Davis Jr., Sidney Poitier
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