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9 April 1943 (USA)
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Broadway's big, fun-jammed music show is on the screen at last--crowded with stars and songs and spectacle in the famed MGM manner! more
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A compulsive gambler dies during a shooting, but he'll receive a second chance to reform himself and to make up with his worried wife. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 1 nomination
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Oh, Little Joe
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Ethel Waters | ... | Petunia Jackson |
| Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson | ... | Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson |
 | Lena Horne | ... | Georgia Brown |
 | Louis Armstrong | ... | The Trumpeter |
| Rex Ingram | ... | Lucifer Jr. / Lucius Ferry |
| Kenneth Spencer | ... | The General / Rev. Greene |
| John William Sublett | ... | Domino Johnson (as 'Bubbles' John W. Sublett) |
| Oscar Polk | ... | The Deacon / Fleetfoot |
| Mantan Moreland | ... | First Idea Man |
| Willie Best | ... | Second Idea Man |
| Fletcher Rivers | ... | Third Idea Man (as Moke [Fletcher Rivers]) |
| Leon James Poke | ... | Fourth Idea Man (as Poke Leon James) |
| Ford Washington Lee | ... | Messenger Boy (as 'Buck' Ford L. Washington) |
| Bill Bailey | ... | Bill |
| Butterfly McQueen | ... | Lily |
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98 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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"Cabin in the Sky", the original musical comedy, had been written by Lynn Root (lyrics and libretto) and composed by Vernon Duke and John La Touche. The producer was Albert Lewis in association with Vinton Freedley.
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Continuity: After Domino Johnson accidentally shoots Petunia in the nightclub, she drapes her right arm over the staircase twice.
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Petunia Jackson:
You have a funny feeling, Joe?
Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson: I've got a feeling, but it ain't funny!
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Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson: I've got a feeling, but it ain't funny!
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Referenced in Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front (2006) (TV)
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Going Up
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Brilliant. Simply Brilliant. This movie appealed to me the first time I watched it. The acting is consistently good, the music is enduring, and the story is unforgettable. Little Joe is not a bad man, but he likes to make life interesting for himself. Married to a good-hearted woman and being fit as a fox, Little Joe has a pretty good life, but it takes him awhile to realize just how good he's got it, or had it as the case may be. When a lottery ticket promises to bring Little Joe everything he has ever wanted, Little Joe must decide between the straight and narrow and the prurient desires of dice, jazz, and the seductive sweet Georgia Brown. Heaven and Hell battle over Little's Joe's soul, but Little Joe must decide for himself before time runs out.