Cabin in the Sky

Times

Sun Jul 26 at 7:00 PM

Cost

General $9; Student/Senior/Cineclub/UCLA Alum Assoc $8; Student & Senior Cineclub $7

Venue

The Billy Wilder Theater (10899 Wilshire Boulevard (intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards) Los Angeles, CA 90024 310.206.8013 )

Sunday July 26 2009, 7:00PM*

CABIN THE SKY
(1943) Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli made his feature directorial debut by transforming this modest Broadway show into a big-screen box-office hit. A fantasy-tinged morality tale of greed, adultery and redemption, Cabin in the Sky pits a saintly wife against Lucifer in a battle for her husband’s soul. Ethel Waters reprises her stage role as Petunia Jackson, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson plays her ne’er do well husband Little Joe, and Lena Horne shines in a memorable turn as the sultry temptress Georgia Brown. Cabin was only the fourth all-black Hollywood musical since the inception of sound, but its talented cast enabled the film to transcend prevailing racial stereotypes.

MGM. Based on the play by Lynn Root, Vernon Duke and John Latouche. Producer: Arthur Freed. Screenplay: Joseph Schrank. Cinematographer: Sidney Wagner. Editor: Harold F. Kress. Cast: Ethel Waters, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Rex Ingram. 35mm, B/W, 98 min.

• Please note the early start time.

Published

Wed Jun 24, 2009 in Screening

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