Porgy and Bess Released 1959-06-24 is a story that falls under the Music, Drama, Romance category. Movie Story "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.".