Porgy and Bess (1993)

Name: Porgy and Bess
Director: Trevor Nunn
Genre: Music, Drama
Released: 1993-10-06
Duration: 184 min
Cast: Willard White, Cynthia Haymon, Gregg Baker, Cynthia Clarey, Marietta Simpson

19933h 4mMusicDrama

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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Cast

Willard WhitePorgy
Cynthia HaymonBess
GGregg BakerCrown
Cynthia ClareySerena
Marietta SimpsonMaria
Damon EvansSportin' Life
PPaula IngramClara / Annie (singing voice)
GGordon HawkinsJake
DD. Alonzo WashingtonRobbins
MMervin WallacePeter
Barrington ColemanMingo
WWilliam B. JohnsonFrazier
CCamella JohnsonStrawberry Woman
CColenton FreemanNelson / Crabman
YYolanda GrantAnnie
MMaureen BrathwaiteLily
CCurtis WatsonJim
AAutris PaigeUndertaker

Crew

Director: Trevor Nunn
Writers: DuBose Heyward Dorothy Heyward
Producers: Richard Price Dennis Marks Greg Smith Stephanie Marks
Music: George Gershwin
Cinematography: Chris Townsend
Editing: St. John O'Rorke

Details

Released: October 6, 1993
Language: English
Studio: BBC
IMDb: tt0107854