Cabin in the Sky (1943)
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80% of critics liked it
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76% of users liked it
(1,888 ratings)
Mortally shot at a crap game, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson gets a six-month Heavenly reprieve thanks to prayers from wife and True Believer Ethel Waters, but Rex Ingram's "Lucifer Jr." has a secret weapon in the ensuing battle for Anderson's soul: Lena Horne's sultry… More Mortally shot at a crap game, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson gets a six-month Heavenly reprieve thanks to prayers from wife and True Believer Ethel Waters, but Rex Ingram's "Lucifer Jr." has a secret weapon in the ensuing battle for Anderson's soul: Lena Horne's sultry Sweet Georgia Brown. But Ethel proves to have "everything you've got and whole lot more." Minnelli's first major movie musical features some of the top African American talent of the day, including John Bubbles, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington and His Orchestra. But it's above all a showcase for top-billed Waters' enormous singing, dancing, comedy, and acting talents. -- (C) Film Forum
- Directed By
- Vincente Minnelli, Busby Berkeley
- Written By
- Joseph Schrank
- Genres
- Drama, Musical & Performing Arts, Classics, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Apr 9, 1943 Wide
- Studio
- WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
Critic Reviews
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Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion
Lustrous, gospel-folklore retelling of Faust
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Michael E. Grost, Classic Film and Television
Fascinatingly stylized musical.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
All-black 1943 musical and moralistic fable.
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Minnelli's feature debut was MGM's first all-black musical since Vidor's Hallellujah!, a stylized fable boasting great performances from Lena Horne, in her first major role, and Ethel waters, as her nemesis.
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Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
Vincente Minnelli's enjoyable directorial debut.
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Cast
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Ethel Waters
as Petunia Jackson
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Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
as Little Joe Jackson
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Lena Horne
as Georgia Brown
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Louis Armstrong
as The Trumpeter
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Rex Ingram
as Lucius Lucifer Jr.
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Kenneth Spencer
as Rev. Green the General
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John "Bubbles" Sublett
as Domino
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Oscar Polk
as The Deacon/Flatfoot
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Mantan Moreland
as First Idea Man
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Willie Best
as Second Idea Man
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Fletcher Rivers
as Third Idea Man Moke
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Leon James
as Fourth Idea Man Poke
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William Norton Bailey
as Bill
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Ford L. Washington
as Messenger Boy
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Butterfly McQueen
as Lily
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Ruby Dandridge
as Mrs. Kelso
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Ernest Whitman
as Jim Henry
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Archie Savage
as Dancer
- The Hall Johnson Choir
- Duke Ellington
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Stewart Nicodemus
as Dude
- John William Sublett
- Cab Calloway
