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Writers:
Lynn Root (play)
Joseph Schrank (writer)
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Release Date:
9 April 1943 (USA) more
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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 more
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Ethel Waters in Superb Form more (41 total)

Cast

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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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This film is generally credited with the first appearance of the "moon walk" dance step. It is performed by Bill Bailey, brother of Pearl Bailey. more
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Continuity: After Domino Johnson accidentally shoots Petunia in the nightclub, she drapes her right arm over the staircase twice. more
Quotes:
Jim Henry: [Petunia orders a drink at Jim Henry's] What'll it be, Miss Jackson?
Petunia Jackson: You may get me a double King Kong!
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10 out of 12 people found the following review useful.
Ethel Waters in Superb Form, 25 December 2003
Author: TAYLOR BOWIE from United States

This wonderful musical has a LOT going for it: a great cast of noted black actors from stage and screen, songs by Vernon Duke and Harold Arlen, the directorial debut of Vincent Minnelli, etc. But above all, you have a chance to see and hear the matchless singer/actress Ethel Waters in top form, and perhaps begin to understand why many consider her the greatest and most influential jazz/pop vocalist of all time...yes, every great singer who came later, including Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, etc. had a style which came out of Ethel Waters...and that goes as well for her beautiful co-star in this film, Lena Horne. A must for fans of musicals, jazz, and great music!

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