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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

Dorothy Heyward
Theatre Play
DuBose Heyward
Theatre Play

Ken Darby
Original Music Composer
Leon Shamroy
Director of Photography

Oliver Smith
Production Design
Howard Bristol
Set Decoration

Irene Sharaff
Costume Design
Fred Lau
Sound Designer
Serge Krizman
Art Direction

Joseph C. Wright
Art Direction
Layne Britton
Makeup Artist
Frank McCoy
Makeup Artist

Hermes Pan
Choreographer

George Gershwin
Original Music Composer
Fred Lau
Sound Recordist