Porgy and Bess
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2hrs
18mins
Directed by
Otto Preminger,
Starring
Sidney Poitier,
Dorothy Dandridge,
Sammy Davis Jr.,
Pearl Bailey
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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.