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This is a delightful film. The Broadway score, already one of the finer scores for its time, with the classics “Taking a chance on love” and “Cabin in the sky”, was further improved with the addition of “Happiness is just a thing called Joe”. There are several other wonderful numbers, including the Duke Ellington number with some great dancing, and “Bubbles” singing “Shine”. The cast was the finest black talent of the day, and the movie demonstrates why Ethel Waters was considered the greatest singer and entertainer of her day. In this movie, she also demonstrates that she is a fine actress and a fine dancer. It’s a pity that the racial climate of the time didn’t allow her more films - she’s as magical on screen as she was, by all reports, in person. The remainder of the cast includes a stunning young Lena Horne, surely one of the most beautiful women ever to appear on screen, and who is here allowed to be smolderingly sexy, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, who’s an endearing Little Joe, Rex Ingram as Lucifer Jr, and smaller but memorable appearances by Louis Armstrong, Butterfly McQueen, and “Bubbles” of Buck and Bubbles. Seeing Waters sing “Taking a chance on love”, “cabin in the sky”, “Happiness is just a thing called Joe” and her wicked reprise of “Honey in the honeycomb”, complete with some dance steps that will floor you, is more than enough to recommend the movie, but all performances are delightful, and the songs and background music are great. If we take it as a “fable”, as we are counseled to do at the beginning, then I don’t see it as a racist or dated film. The characters are almost all well delineated and believable within the “fable” context, and are no more stereotypical in this context than numerous films of white people at the time that were also fantasies.
It’s a pleasure to watch from beginning to end - clearly a timeless classic, especially valuable for archiving for all time the classic Waters performance and the superb acting, singing, dancing and comedic skills of some of the greatest black talent pre-World War II.
Ethel Waters repeated her Broadway role of Petunia Jackson, a woman who fervently prays for her husband to mend his gambling ways for the screen with great success, as she sings and dances her way into our hearts. Petunia is the central character in the film, and has most of the songs. The film was also instrumental in making Lena Horne a star, and even though her part as the devil’s handmaiden, Georgia Brown, is not a large one, she is stunning, and makes the screen sizzle with her sensual beauty.
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Petunia’s husband, Little Joe, is played by Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, and Little Joe’s soul is in the balance, as Lucifer Jr. (Rex Ingram) battles The General (Kenneth Spencer) for where it will spend eternity. The scenes with Lucifer and his minions, who include Louis Armstrong, are hilarious, as they plot the best way to tempt Little Joe. The talent, music, and humor in this film make it well worth watching as entertainment, and also for its historical value of being one of the best all-black cast vehicles Hollywood produced.
“Cabin in the Sky” was the directorial film debut for Vincente Minnelli (he had directed the Broadway show), and some others in the terrific cast are John William Sublett, Butterfly McQueen, and Duke Ellington and his Orchestra. Music is by Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg, and more. The song list is: “Cabin in the Sky,” “Happiness is Just a Thing Called Joe” (nominated for a Best Song Oscar), “Taking a Chance on Love,” “Life is Full of Consequence,” “Li’l Black Sheep,” “Shine,” and “Honey in the Honeycomb.” Total running time is 98 minutes.
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