Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the story focuses on the titular characters, crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, and the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
Dorothy Dandridge | Bess | |
Sammy Davis Jr. | Sportin' Life | |
Pearl Bailey | Maria | |
Brock Peters | Crowne | |
Diahann Carroll | Clara | |
Leslie Scott | Jake |
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