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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 PoitierPorgy -
Dorothy DandridgeBess -
Sammy Davis Jr.Sportin' Life -
Pearl BaileyMaria -
Brock PetersCrowne -
Diahann CarrollClara -
Leslie ScottJake -
Ruth AttawaySerena Robbins -
Claude AkinsDetective -
Clarence MusePeter -
Everdinne WilsonAnnie -
Ivan DixonJim -
Scatman CrothersCrabman -
Maya AngelouDancer -
Nichelle NicholsDancer
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