Cabin in the Sky
Movie
1943
1 HOUR 38 MINS
Musical
A gambler, Little Joe, is killed over a debt but gets a second chance at life from an angel to mend his ways and win the love of his devoted wife, Petunia, amidst a battle between good and evil forces for his soul.
Cast & Crew
Ethel Waters Petunia Jackson
Eddie "Rochester" Anderson Joe Jackson
Lena Horne Georgia Brown
Louis Armstrong The Trumpeter
Rex Ingram Lucifer Jr./Lucius
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
Fletcher Rivers Third Idea Man
Poke Leon James Fourth Idea Man
Bill Bailey Bill
Ford L. Washington Messenger Boy
Butterfly McQueen Lily
Ruby Dandridge Mrs. Kelso
Nicodemus Dude
Ernest Whitman Jim Henry
Duke Ellington Self
Vincente Minnelli Director
Busby Berkeley Director
Marc Connelly Writer
Lynn Root Writer
Joseph Schrank Writer
Arthur Freed Producer
Albert Lewis Associate Producer
Sidney Wagner Cinematography
Harold F. Kress Film Editing
Harold Arlen Original Music
Vernon Duke Original Music
Cedric Gibbons Art Director
Edwin B. Willis Set Decoration
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Matt Roush says...
The countdown is on to the Oscars on March 15, with TCM compiling a month’s worth of Oscar winners and nominees for daily and nightly groupings based on the theme “The Oscar Goes to …” The fun begins with “Oscar Goes to a Fantasy World,” bookended by musicals Cabin in the Sky and Lerner & Loewe’s Brigadoon (6/5c). The evening event, “Oscar Goes to a Wedding,” includes the original 1950 Father of the Bride (8/7c) starring Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor, 1994’s hit Four Weddings and a Funeral (9:45/8:45c), and Mike Nichols‘ iconic The Graduate (midnight/11c).
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