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Which African American performers appeared in Cabin in the Sky?
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Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli (right) with Lana Turner (left) during the filming of The Bad and the Beautiful (1952).
The 1943 film Cabin in the Sky, directed by Vincente Minnelli, was notable for being the first major studio film with an African American cast since 1936. The film featured several prominent African American performers, including:
- Eddie “Rochester” Anderson as Little Joe Jackson1
- Ethel Waters as Petunia12
- Lena Horne13
- Louis Armstrong1
- Kenneth Spencer as the angel1
- Rex Ingram as the devil1
- The Duke Ellington Orchestra1