Cabin in the sky [videorecording] / a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture ; producer, Arthur Freed ; screenplay, Joseph Shrank [sic] ; director, Vincente Minnelli.
Title from container. Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Rex Ingram. Originally released as a motion picture in 1943. Based on the Broadway musical hit. Special features: commentary by Evangela Anderson and Eva Anderson (wife and daughter of Eddie "Rochester" Anderson), Fayard Nicholas, Black cultural scholars Todd Boyd and Drew Casper, with interview excerpts of Lena Horne; vintage Pete Smith specialty shor studio visit; audio-only bonus: Louis Armstrong "Ain't it the truth" outtake; theatrical trailer.
Summary:
The fable of rascally Little Joe, torn between the love of his good wife Petunia and the wiles of good-time bad girl Georgia Brown ... and caught in a tug-of-war between emissaries from the Lord and Satan.
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