Cabin in the Sky

Release Date:

Apr 9, 1943

Running Time:

1:38

Genre:

Musical

Director:

Vincente Minnelli, Busby Berkeley

Cast:

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	Himself

Producers:

Arthur Freed

Writers:

Marc Connelly, Lynn Root, Joseph Schrank

Language:

English

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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.

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