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 Poitier | Porgy |
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Dorothy Dandridge | Bess |
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Sammy Davis Jr. | Sportin' Life |
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Pearl Bailey | Maria |
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Brock Peters | Crown |
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Leslie Scott | Jake |
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Diahann Carroll | Clara |
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Ruth Attaway | Serena Robbins |
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Claude Akins | Detective |
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Clarence Muse | Peter |
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Everdinne Wilson | Annie |
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Joel Fluellen | Robbins |
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Earl Jackson | Mingo |
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Moses LaMarr | Nelson |
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Margaret Hairston | Lily |
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Ivan Dixon | Jim |
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Antoine Durousseau | Scipio |
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Helen Thigpen | Strawberry woman |
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Vince Townsend Jr. | Elderly man |
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Bill Walker | Undertaker |
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Roy Glenn | Frazier |
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Maurice Manson | Coroner |
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Scatman Crothers | Crabman |
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Adele Addison | Bess |
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Maya Angelou | Dancer |
| Director | Otto Preminger |
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| Rouben Mamoulian |
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| Writer | Dorothy Heyward, DuBose Heyward, N. Richard Nash | |
| Producer | Samuel Goldwyn | |
| Musician | George Gershwin | |
| Photography | Leon Shamroy | |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
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