- Music, Drama
- 184 min
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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Cast
- Willard WhitePorgy
- Cynthia HaymonBess
- Gregg BakerCrown
- Cynthia ClareySerena
- Marietta SimpsonMaria
- Damon EvansSportin' Life
- Paula IngramClara / Annie (singing voice)
- Gordon HawkinsJake
- D. Alonzo WashingtonRobbins
- Mervin WallacePeter
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- Trevor NunnDirector
- DuBose HeywardWriter
- Dorothy HeywardWriter
- Chris TownsendDirector of Photography
- George GershwinOriginal Music Composer
- St. John O'RorkeEditor
- Greg SmithProducer
- Stephanie MarksProducer
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