Porgy and Bess (24/06/1959)

Production : Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Columbia Pictures

Synopsis

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.

Sidney Poitier

Dorothy Dandridge

Sammy Davis Jr.

Pearl Bailey