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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 PoitierPorgy
- Dorothy DandridgeBess
- Sammy Davis Jr.Sportin' Life
- Pearl BaileyMaria
- Brock PetersCrowne
- Diahann CarrollClara
- Leslie ScottJake
- Ruth AttawaySerena Robbins
- Claude AkinsDetective
- Clarence MusePeter
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- Otto PremingerDirector
- N. Richard NashScreenplay
- Leon ShamroyDirector of Photography
- Ken DarbyOriginal Music Composer
- George GershwinOriginal Music Composer
- Daniel MandellEditor
- Samuel GoldwynProducer
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