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TITLE Porgy and Bess (1959)

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DISABILITY Amputee Limb

COUNTRY USA

LENGTH 138

GENRE Musical

DIRECTOR Otto Preminger

CAST Dorothy Dandridge

Sammy Davis Jr.

Pearl Bailey

Brock Peters

Leslie Scott

Diahann Carroll

NOTES A musical/opera about the poor black folk of Catfish row. The disabled Porgy loves the beautiful Bess. If I remember rightly Brock Peters uses a goat cart to move about.

Thanks to Albert Sanchez Moreno who corrects me here: In

"Porgy and Bess",it was Sidney Poitier (in the role of Porgy)

who used a goat cart to get around. Brock Peters played

Crown,the able-bodied villain and murderer.

 


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