Porgy is een kreupele man die leeft in het desolate stadje Catfish Row. Hij is verliefd op Bess, een mooie maar drugsverslaafde vrouw. Bess wordt desalniettemin door meerdere mannen geadoreerd, waaronder Crown, een domme kracht, die een andere vriend van Bess vermoord.
Nee, helaas is Porgy and Bess nog niet beschikbaar op Netflix in Nederland.
| Costume & Make-Up | Irene Sharaff | Costume Design |
| Writing | DuBose Heyward | Theatre Play |
| Writing | Dorothy Heyward | Theatre Play |
| Production | Samuel Goldwyn | Producer |
| Sound | Ken Darby | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Howard Bristol | Set Decoration |
| Art | Oliver Smith | Production Design |
| Sound | Fred Lau | Sound Designer |
| Camera | Leon Shamroy | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Daniel Mandell | Editor |
| Writing | N. Richard Nash | Screenplay |
| Directing | Otto Preminger | Director |
| Art | Joseph C. Wright | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | Layne Britton | Makeup Artist |
| Crew | Hermes Pan | Choreographer |
| Directing | Paul Helmick | Assistant Director |
| Art | Serge Krizman | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | Frank McCoy | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | George Gershwin | Songs |
| Sound | George Gershwin | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Ira Gershwin | Lyricist |
| Sound | Fred Lau | Sound Recordist |
