<P> Goldwyn offered Sidney Poitier $75,000 to portray Porgy . The actor had serious reservations about the role and turned it down, but his agent led Goldwyn to believe she could persuade her client to star in the film . She proved to be unsuccessful, and Goldwyn threatened to sue the actor for breaching an oral contract . When Poitier realized his refusal to star in Porgy might jeopardize his appearance in the Stanley Kramer film The Defiant Ones, he reconsidered and grudgingly accepted, assuring Goldwyn he would "do the part to the best of my ability - under the circumstances ." </P> <P> Mezzo Muriel Smith, co-creator (double - cast with soprano Muriel Rahn) of the Broadway title role in Oscar Hammerstein's "Carmen Jones," creator of the role of Bloody Mary in the original London cast of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific," whose more important movie ghost - singing assignments included dubbing for Zsa Zsa Gabor in John Huston's original film version of "Moulin Rouge" and for Juanita Hall in 1958's "South Pacific," turned down Samuel Goldwyn's offer to portray Bess, responding, the work "...Doesn't do right by my people ." This statement contradicts another that Samuel Goldwyn's first and only choice for Bess was Dorothy Dandridge, who accepted the role without enthusiasm . Her Carmen Jones co-stars Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters, and Diahann Carroll also accepted roles, but all of them had concerns about how their characters would be portrayed . Bailey warned costume designer Irene Sharaff she would not wear any bandannas because she was unwilling to look like Aunt Jemima . </P> <P> Completing the primary creative team were production designer Oliver Smith, who recently had won the Tony Award for Best Scenic Design for My Fair Lady, and André Previn and Ken Darby, who would supervise the music . Because Poitier could not sing and the score was beyond Dandridge's range, their vocals would be dubbed, and Goldwyn insisted only black singers could be hired for the task . Leontyne Price, who had portrayed Bess in the 1952 European tour and the acclaimed 1953 Broadway revival, was invited to sing the role on film but responded, "No body, no voice ." Adele Addison and Robert McFerrin eventually were hired, but neither received screen credit . </P> <P> Despite Goldwyn's intention that the music sound as much as it did in the original opera as possible, he did allow Previn and his team to completely rescore and even change the underscoring heard during the fight scenes and at several other moments, as well as in the overture to the film . </P>

Who sang for sidney poitier in porgy and bess
find me the text answering this question