Cabin in the Sky (9-Apr-1943)
Director: Vincente Minnelli Writer: Joseph Schrank From a play by: Lynn Root, John LaTouche, and Vernon Duke Producer: Arthur Freed Keywords: Musical, Gambling Little Joe is a gambler and hasn't been on the best of behavior in his life; he abruptly receives a second chance to save his soul. Great musical numbers. Led by Ethel Waters and performed by an exceptional cast of many of the biggest names in black entertainment, legends still today. Vincente Minnelli's directorial debut. Received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song, "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe."
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Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Eddie Anderson |
Actor |
18-Sep-1905 |
28-Feb-1977 |
Rochester on The Jack Benny Show |
Louis Armstrong |
Jazz Musician |
4-Aug-1901 |
6-Jul-1971 |
Jazz trumpeter |
Willie Best |
Actor |
27-May-1913 |
27-Feb-1962 |
Sleep 'n' Eat |
Duke Ellington |
Jazz Musician |
29-Apr-1899 |
24-May-1974 |
It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing |
Lena Horne |
Singer |
30-Jun-1917 |
9-May-2010 |
Stormy Weather |
Butterfly McQueen |
Actor |
7-Jan-1911 |
22-Dec-1995 |
Gone with the Wind |
Mantan Moreland |
Actor |
3-Sep-1902 |
28-Sep-1973 |
Birmingham Brown |
Ethel Waters |
Singer |
31-Oct-1896 |
1-Sep-1977 |
Sweet Mama Stringbean |
CAST -Starring | Ethel Waters | ... Petunia Jackson | Eddie Anderson | ... Little Joe Jackson | Lena Horne | ... Georgia Brown | | With | Louis Armstrong | ... The Trumpeter | Rex Ingram | ... Lucius / Lucifer, Jr. | Duke Ellington | ... Himself | and His Orchestra | ... Themselves | The Hall Johnson Choir | ... Choir | | Kenneth Spencer | ... Rev. Greene / The General | John W. 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 | ... Fourth Idea Man | Bill Bailey | ... Bill | Ford L. Washington | ... Messenger Boy | Butterfly McQueen | ... Lily | Ruby Dandridge | ... Mrs. Kelso | Nicodemus | ... Dude | Ernest Whitman | ... Jim Henry |
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