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Porgy and Bess
1959
2h 18m
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
Everdinne WilsonAnnie
Ivan DixonJim
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