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.
Otto Preminger | Director |
Dorothy Heyward | Theatre Play |
DuBose Heyward | Theatre Play |
N. Richard Nash | Screenplay |
Samuel Goldwyn | Producer |
Ken Darby | Original Music Composer |
Leon Shamroy | Director of Photography |
Daniel Mandell | Editor |
Oliver Smith | Production Design |
Howard Bristol | Set Decoration |