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Porgy and Bess
Released: June 24, 1959 (1959)
Runtime: 138 minutes
Genres: Music, Drama, Romance
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.
Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)
- Clarence Muse as Peter
Age at release: 69
- Ruth Attaway as Serena Robbins
Age at release: 48
- Pearl Bailey as Maria
Age at release: 41
- Leslie Scott as Jake
Age at release: 38
- Dorothy Dandridge as Bess
Age at release: 36
- Sammy Davis Jr. as Sportin' Life
Age at release: 33
- Claude Akins as Detective
Age at release: 33
- Sidney Poitier as Porgy
Age at release: 32
- Brock Peters as Crowne
Age at release: 31
- Diahann Carroll as Clara
Age at release: 23
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- Scatman Crothers as Crabman
Age at release: 49
- Maya Angelou as Dancer
Age at release: 31
- Ivan Dixon as Jim
Age at release: 28
- Nichelle Nichols as Dancer
Age at release: 26
- Everdinne Wilson as Annie
Age at release: Unknown