Cab Calloway as Sportin Life in the opera Porgy and Bess

1948 - Cab Calloway as Sportin Life, a gambler and dope peddler who persuades Bess to go to New York and enjoy the high life of Harlem. Porgy and Bess the Black Opera comes to London. Porgy and Bess is a George Gershwin classic folk opera that deals with black Americans. It has now come to the Stoll Theatre in London and is performed by an entirely black cast. The story is simple and moving. Porgy, a disabled Charleston beggar who makes his rounds in a goat cart, wins the heart of Bess, a woman of the streets after the disappearance of her lover, Crown, a murderer. Crown returns to claim her; Porgy kills him, and while he is in gaol, she goes away with Sportin Life, a gambler and dope peddler, to enjoy high life in Harlem. Porgy sets out in his goat cart to find her. (Credit Image: (c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans)

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