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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

Dorothy Dandridge
Bess

Sammy Davis Jr.
Sportin' Life

Pearl Bailey
Maria

Brock Peters
Crowne

Diahann Carroll
Clara

Leslie Scott
Jake

Ruth Attaway
Serena Robbins

Claude Akins
Detective

Clarence Muse
Peter
Everdinne Wilson
Annie

Ivan Dixon
Jim

Scatman Crothers
Crabman

Maya Angelou
Dancer

Nichelle Nichols
Dancer