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Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
“At Last on the Screen! The Musical Comedy Sensation!”
Music, Fantasy, Comedy · 1h 38m
When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for six months to prove that he deserves to be in heaven. He awakens, remembering nothing and struggles to do right by his devout wife, Petunia, while an angel known as the General and the devil's son, Lucifer Jr., fight for his soul.
Cast
Ethel Waters
Petunia Jackson
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson
Lena Horne
Georgia Brown
Louis Armstrong
The Trumpeter
Rex Ingram
Lucius / Lucifer Jr.
K
Kenneth Spencer
The General / Rev. Greene
John 'Bubbles' Sublett
Domino Johnson
Oscar Polk
The Deacon / Fleetfoot
Mantan Moreland
First Idea Man
Willie Best
Second Idea Man
F
Fletcher Rivers
Third Idea Man
L
Leon James Poke
Fourth Idea Man
Crew
- Director
- Vincente Minnelli
- Screenplay
- Joseph Schrank
- Writer
- Marc Connelly
- Novel
- Lynn Root
- Director of Photography
- Sidney Wagner
- Original Music Composer
- George Bassman, Roger Edens, George Stoll, Hall Johnson
- Editor
- Harold F. Kress
- Producer
- Arthur Freed
Details
- Release date
- 1943-03-24
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Music, Fantasy, Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Budget
- $662,141
- Box office
- $1,606,624