Porgy and Bess

10.020022h 33m

Music

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.

Directed by Tazewell Thompson

CAST

The people behind the story

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Marquita ListerBess

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Alvy PowellPorgy

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Timothy Robert BlevinsCrown

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Sabrina Elaine CartenMaria

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Dwayne ClarkSportin' Life

David Aron Damane

David Aron DamaneJake

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Darryl Reuben HallCompany

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Wynn HarmonThe Detective