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Porgy and Bess

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Calorie Rating: 194
Released: 1959-06-24
Running Time: 138 Minutes
Budget: 7000000
Revenue 3500000
Studios: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Columbia Pictures,


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.

Director / Directors

Paul Helmick
Assistant Director


Cast

Sidney Poitier
Character: Porgy
Dorothy Dandridge
Character: Bess
Sammy Davis Jr.
Character: Sportin' Life

Pearl Bailey
Character: Maria
Brock Peters
Character: Crowne
Diahann Carroll
Character: Clara

Leslie Scott
Character: Jake
Ruth Attaway
Character: Serena Robbins
Claude Akins
Character: Detective

Clarence Muse
Character: Peter
Everdinne Wilson
Character: Annie
Ivan Dixon
Character: Jim

Scatman Crothers
Character: Crabman
Maya Angelou
Character: Dancer
Nichelle Nichols
Character: Dancer


Production and Crew

Leon Shamroy
Director of Photography
Dorothy Heyward
Theatre Play

Ken Darby
Original Music Composer
Oliver Smith
Production Design

Irene Sharaff
Costume Design
Howard Bristol
Set Decoration
DuBose Heyward
Theatre Play

Fred Lau
Sound Designer
Frank McCoy
Makeup Artist

Serge Krizman
Art Direction
Joseph C. Wright
Art Direction
Layne Britton
Makeup Artist

Hermes Pan
Choreographer

George Gershwin
Original Music Composer
Fred Lau
Sound Recordist