Porgy and Bess

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.

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  Sidney Poitier

  Porgy
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  Dorothy Dandridge

  Bess
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  Sammy Davis Jr.

  Sportin' Life
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  Pearl Bailey

  Maria
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  Brock Peters

  Crowne
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  Diahann Carroll

  Clara
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  Leslie Scott

  Jake
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  Ruth Attaway

  Serena Robbins
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  Claude Akins

  Detective
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  Clarence Muse

  Peter