Porgy & Bess (1959). Amazingly, out of the main characters, Sidney Poitier was the last remaining until recently. We are still waiting for this film to get a proper release. Starring an all-star cast of Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters, Diahann Carroll, Clarence Muse, Leslie Scott, and Joel Fluellen In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with a disreputable history -