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Submit Your ReviewA stellar line-up of African-American actors and musical stars helped to bring DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin's classic operetta to this screen in this lavishly-produced adaptation. Porgy (Sidney Poitier) is a crippled man living in the shantytown of Catfish Row who has fallen in love with Bess ...more
Year: 1959 | Running Time: 138 minutes
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- Sidney Poitier - Porgy
- Dorothy Dandridge - Bess
- Sammy Davis, Jr. - Sportin' Life
- Pearl Bailey - Maria
- Brock Peters - Crown
- Roy E. Glenn, Sr. - Frazier
- Adele Addison - Bess (Singing Voice)
- Robert McFerrin - Porgy (Bess)
- Diahann Carroll - Clara
- Leslie Scott - Jake
- Ruth Attaway - Serena
- Clarence Muse - Peter
- Everdinne Wilson - Annie
- Joel Fluellen - Robbins
- Otto Preminger - Director
- Samuel Goldwyn - Producer
- N. Richard Nash - Screenwriter
- DuBose Heyward - Book Author
- Serge Krizman - Art Director
- Joseph C. Wright - Art Director
- Hermes Pan - Choreography
- Irene Sharaff - Costume Designer
- Dan Mandell - Editor
- Ken Darby - Composer (Music Score)
- Andre Previn - Composer (Music Score)
- Andre Previn - Musical Direction/Supervision
- Frank McCoy - Makeup
- Layne Britton - Makeup
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