{"id":15962,"date":"2016-08-04T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T22:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=15962"},"modified":"2020-08-05T13:36:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T17:36:36","slug":"cabin-in-the-sky-1943-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=15962","title":{"rendered":"Cabin in the Sky (1943) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z080416cabininthesky_poster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"756\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cabin in the Sky (1943)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Vincente Minnelli, Busby Berkeley<\/strong> (uncredited)<\/p>\n<p>Screenplay: <strong>Joseph Schrank<\/strong> based on the musical by <strong>Lynn Root<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Ethel Waters, Eddie &#8216;Rochester&#8217; Anderson, Lena Horne, Butterfly McQueen, Louis Armstrong, Rex Ingram, Kenneth Spencer,<\/strong> and <strong>Duke Ellington<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Pitch: \u201cLet\u2019s make a movie version of \u2018Cabin in the Sky!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: \u201cBroadway&#8217;s big, fun-jammed music show is on the screen at last&#8211;crowded with stars and songs and spectacle in the famed MGM manner!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Overview:&nbsp; Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Little Joe [Anderson] dies after being shot during a night of gambling and fast women. Before his soul can be claimed, Little Joe\u2019s wife, Petunia [Waters] prays so hard for Little Joe that angels show up just as the Devil\u2019s soldiers prepare to wisk him away.&nbsp; A decision is made that Little Joe will be returned to the living and have six months to earn his way heaven or be claimed by the devils.&nbsp; The catch is Little Joe will remember none of this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The devils plot to place every obstacle possible in Little Joe\u2019s path from fast women like Georgia Brown [Horne] to fast cash and no-account friends.&nbsp; Will Joe make it to the Cabin in the Sky?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z080416cabininthesky_pic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabin in the Sky (1943) Director: Vincente Minnelli, Busby Berkeley (uncredited) Screenplay: Joseph Schrank based on the musical by Lynn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,54,64,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-movies","category-music","category-z-view","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24121,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962\/revisions\/24121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}