Cabin in the Sky
At Last on the Screen! The Musical Comedy Sensation!
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.
Director Vincente Minnelli
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Cast
Ethel Waters
Petunia Jackson
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson
Lena Horne
Georgia Brown
Nick Stewart
Dude
Willie Best
Second Idea Man
Ernest Whitman
Jim Henry
Suzette Harbin
Dancer / Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited)
Amanda Randolph
Churchgoer (uncredited)
Mantan Moreland
First Idea Man
Butterfly McQueen
Lily
Ruby Dandridge
Mrs. Kelso
Vivian Dandridge
Dancer / Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited)
Florence O'Brien
Dancer / Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited)
John 'Bubbles' Sublett
Domino Johnson
Juanita Moore
Nightclub Patron / Churchgoer (uncredited)
Archie Savage
Dancer / Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited)
Clinton Rosemond
Doctor (uncredited)
Juano Hernández
Neighbor (uncredited)
Rex Ingram
Lucius / Lucifer Jr.
Oscar Polk
The Deacon / Fleetfoot
William Gillespie
Soloist in 'Little Black Sheep' (uncredited)
Louis Armstrong
The Trumpeter
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington (uncredited)
Joel Fluellen
Mr. Kelso / Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited)
Glenn Leedy
Boy in Church (uncredited)