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.

• Ken DarbyOriginal Music Composer
• Otto PremingerDirector
• N. Richard NashScreenplay
• George GershwinOriginal Music Composer

• Sidney PoitierPorgy
• Dorothy DandridgeBess
• Sammy Davis Jr.Sportin' Life
• Pearl BaileyMaria
• Brock PetersCrowne
• Diahann CarrollClara
• Leslie ScottJake
• Ruth AttawaySerena Robbins
• Claude AkinsDetective
• Clarence MusePeter
• Everdinne WilsonAnnie
• Ivan DixonJim