Director
Otto Preminger
DIRECTOR
Rouben Mamoulian
Writer
DuBose Heyward
WRITER
N. Richard Nash
Stars (in credits order)
Sidney Poitier
Porgy
Dorothy Dandridge
Bess
Sammy Davis Jr.
Sportin' Life
Pearl Bailey
Maria
Brock Peters
Crown
Leslie Scott
Jake
Diahann Carroll
Clara
Ruth Attaway
Serena Robbins
Claude Akins
Detective
Clarence Muse
Peter
Everdinne Wilson
Annie
Joel Fluellen
Robbins
Earl Jackson
Mingo
Moses LaMarr
Nelson
Margaret Hairston
Lily
Ivan Dixon
Jim
Antoine Durousseau
Scipio
Helen Thigpen
Strawberry woman
Vince Townsend Jr.
Elderly man
Bill Walker
Undertaker
Roy Glenn
Frazier
Maurice Manson
Coroner
Scatman Crothers
Crabman
Adele Addison
Bess(uncredited)(singingVoice)
Maya Angelou
Dancer(uncredited)
Geoffrey Holder
Inez Matthews
Serena(uncredited)(singingVoice)
Robert McFerrin
Porgy(uncredited)(singingVoice)
Nichelle Nichols
Loulie Jean Norman
Clara(uncredited)(singingVoice)
Ron Townson
Chorus(uncredited)
