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1959 | DIRECTED BY OTTO PREMINGER AND ROUBEN MAMOULIAN

Porgy and Bess

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Directed by

Otto Preminger

Rouben Mamoulian

Producers

Name

Role

Samuel Goldwyn

Producer

Written by

Writer

Role

Dorothy Heyward

Play

DuBose Heyward

Libretto And Play

N. Richard Nash

Screenplay

Music by

Artist

Role

George Gershwin

Music

Starring

Actors

Character

Sidney Poitier

Porgy

Dorothy Dandridge

Bess

Sammy Davis Jr.

Sportin' Life

Pearl Bailey

Maria

Brock Peters

Crown

Leslie Scott

Jake

Diahann Carroll

Clara

Ruth Attaway

Serena Robbins

Claude Akins

Detective

Clarence Muse

Peter

Everdinne Wilson

Annie

Joel Fluellen

Robbins

Earl Jackson

Mingo

Moses La'Marr

Nelson

Margaret Hairston

Lily

Ivan Dixon

Jim

Antoine Durousseau

Scipio

Helen Thigpen

Strawberry woman

Vince Townsend Jr.

Elderly man

Bill Walker

Undertaker

Roy Glenn

Frazier

Maurice Manson

Coroner

Scatman Crothers

Crabman

Adele Addison

Bess

Maya Angelou

Dancer

Geoffrey Holder

Dancer

Inez Matthews

Serena

Robert McFerrin

Porgy

Nichelle Nichols

Dancer

Loulie Jean Norman

Clara