Cabin in The Sky

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

MGM knew it would yield a ablution on its all-black agreeable Cabin in the Sky (few Southern theaters of 1943 would blow the film), but the flat still provided its accepted A-plus assembly ethics to the film; besides, it served as a training arena for advancing administrator Vincente Minnelli. Based on the Broadway agreeable by Lynn Root, John LaTouche, and Vernon Duke, the blur tells the adventure of Joe (Eddie "Rochester" Anderson), a shantytown citizen broken amid the angel of affectionate wife Petunia (Ethel Waters) and carnal seductress Georgia (Lena Horne).

Seriously afflicted in a alehouse brawl, Joe dreams that he is the centerpiece of a angelic ability attempt amid a adorable agent (Kenneth Spencer) and Lucifer Jr. (Rex Ingram, who ironically had played "De Lawd" in The Green Pastures). Joe is accustomed addition adventitious to redeem himself on Earth, lest he abatement into the claws of the Devil's little boy. Louis Armstrong briefly shows up, appropriately casting as "The Trumpeter." Song highlights cover "Taking a Adventitious on Love," "Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe," "Life's Full of Consequences," and the appellation song. A afflicted assembly acknowledgment to the on-set animosity amid Ethel Waters and Lena Horne, Cabin in the Sky is nonetheless an accomplished aboriginal affection accomplishment from Vincente Minnelli. Acknowledgment to his accurate analysis of the material, the accepted patronization of the atramentous characters does not impede latter-day amusement of the blur as abundant as it ability have. You can chek other link here.

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