Release Date

24 Mar, 1943

Runtime

01:38: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

At Last on the Screen! The Musical Comedy Sensation!

When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for six months to prove that he deserves to be in heaven. He awakens, remembering nothing and struggles to do right by his devout wife, Petunia, while an angel known as the General and the devil's son, Lucifer Jr., fight for his soul.

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Actors

Ethel Waters

Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

Lena Horne

Louis Armstrong

Rex Ingram

Kenneth Spencer

John 'Bubbles' Sublett

Oscar Polk

Mantan Moreland

Willie Best

Fletcher Rivers

Leon James Poke

Bill Bailey

Ford Washington Lee

Butterfly McQueen

Ruby Dandridge

Nick Stewart

Ernest Whitman

Jules Adger

Doris Ake

Juliette Ball

Crew

Vincente Minnelli

Joseph Schrank

Lynn Root

Arthur Freed

Harold Arlen

E.Y. Harburg

Vernon Duke

Ted Fetter

Duke Ellington

Ford Dabney

Cecil Mack

Mercer Ellington

Roger Edens

George Stoll