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.

Music Fantasy

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)

Jules Adger

(Specialty Dancer in Hell Sequence (uncredited))

Doris Ake

(Dancer / Jim Henry Paradise Patron (uncredited))

Juliette Ball

(Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited))

Lennie Bluett

(Dancer / Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited))

Bernard Bradley

(Specialty Dancer in Hell Sequence (uncredited))

Daisy Bufford

(Dancer / Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited))

Jas. Burch

(Specialty Dancer in Hell Sequence (uncredited))

Curry Lee Calmes

(Specialty Dancer in Hell Sequence (uncredited))

Rita Christiani

(Specialty Dancer in Hell Sequence / Jitterbugger (uncredited))

Vivian Dandridge

(Dancer / Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited))

June Decuire

(Specialty Dancer in Hell Sequence (uncredited))

Dorothea Durham

(Dancer / Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited))

Duke Ellington

(Duke Ellington (uncredited))

Byron Ellis

(Specialty Dancer in Hell Sequence (uncredited))

Joel Fluellen

(Mr. Kelso / Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited))

Louise Franklin

(Dancer / Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited))

William Gillespie

(Soloist in 'Little Black Sheep' (uncredited))

Suzette Harbin

(Dancer / Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited))

Avanelle Harris

(Dancer / Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited))

Kathleen Hartsfield

(Dancer at Jim Henry's Paradise (uncredited))

Maggie Hathaway

(Dancer / Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited))

Cleo Herndon

(Dancer / Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited))

Lawaune Ingram

(Specialty Dancer in Hell Sequence (uncredited))

Bobby Johnson

(Specialty Dancer in Hell Sequence (uncredited))

Glenn Leedy

(Boy in Church (uncredited))

Meade 'Lux' Lewis

(Whistling Solo in 'Take a Chance on Love' (uncredited))

Juanita Moore

(Nightclub Patron / Churchgoer (uncredited))

Tommie Moore

(Dancer / Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited))

Jieno Moxzer

(Specialty Dancer in Hell Sequence (uncredited))

Florence O'Brien

(Dancer / Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited))

Neva Peoples

(Dancer / Jim Henry Patron (uncredited))

Amanda Randolph

(Churchgoer (uncredited))

Louise Ritchie

(Specialty Dancer in Hell Sequence (uncredited))

Henry Phace Roberts

(Dancer / Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited))

Carmencita Romero

(Dancer / Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited))

Clinton Rosemond

(Doctor (uncredited))

Archie Savage

(Dancer / Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited))

Edward C. Short

(Soloist in 'Little Black Sheep' (uncredited))

Johnny Thomas

(Dancer / Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited))

Ernestine Wade

(Churchgoer (uncredited))

Arthur Walker

(Soloist in 'Little Black Sheep' (uncredited))

Artie Young

(Specialty Dancer in Hell Sequence (uncredited))