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Cabin in the Sky

At Last on the Screen! The Musical Comedy Sensation!

1943 · NR · 1h 38m

Directed by Vincente Minnelli

6.5

TMDB audience score
51 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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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.

  • 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

  • Leon James Poke
    Fourth Idea Man

  • Bill Bailey
    Bill

  • Ford Washington Lee
    Messenger Boy

  • Butterfly McQueen
    Lily

  • Ruby Dandridge
    Mrs. Kelso

  • Nick Stewart
    Dude

  • Ernest Whitman
    Jim Henry