Little Joe is a well-meaning yet weak man, whose attempts at redemption are cut short when he is killed over gambling debts by big-shot Domino Johnson.

Secretly guided by "The General" (the Lord's Angel), Little Joe gives up his shiftless ways and becomes a hardworking, generous, and loving husband to his wife Petunia, whom he had previously neglected.

According to notes within the reissue of the CD soundtrack, Freed and Minnelli sought input from black leaders before production began on the film.

"[4] Stock footage of Arnold Gillespie's famous muslin-sock tornado from The Wizard of Oz was reused in this film for the scene where the cyclone destroys the nightclub.

[5] One musical number, in which Horne sings a reprise of "Ain't It the Truth" while taking a bubble bath, was cut from the film prior to release, though it later appeared in a 1946 Pete Smith short subject entitled Studio Visit.

III (1994) (in which the excised performance was also featured), the consensus was thought to be that the showing of a black woman singing in a bath went beyond the bounds of moral decency in 1943.

"[10] Marian McCullough from Loews in Dayton had cooperated with local hotels to place a sign at each registry desk that read, "Ps-s-t!

"[11] The Orpheum Theatre in Springfield, Illinois placed advertisements in the classified section of newspapers that read, "This Cabin for Rent, and with it goes plenty of entertainment for all."

[14] Newspapers and radios were encouraged to hold contests where viewers were to submit, dreams, recipes that use inexpensive ingredients, the furnishing and construction of their ideal "Cabin in the Sky," or incidents they have personally experienced using "luck charms."

"[15] The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe" sung by Ethel Waters.

The website's critics consensus reads, "Cabin in the Sky's racial stereotypes are impossible to ignore – but so are its irresistible musical numbers and brilliantly talented cast.