Cabin in the Sky

It's called Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe.

It's from the movie Cabin in the Sky.

It's written by, uh, Harold Arlen.

Um, I think Yip Harburg too.

Yeah.

And, and came to movies several times, you know, did things like Cabin in the Sky, shared an Oscar nomination for the movie Pinky, um, in 1949, just kind of this legendary performer.

And when you watch her in this movie, you can just imagine just the power it must have been on stage-

Oh, my God

She doesn't have to say much, and yet her look says it all.

And I...

And it's the same thing with Cabin in the Sky.

Mm-hmm.

She talks in Stormy Weather.

She talks in Cabin in the Sky.

She's either singing or she used to say she holds up columns.

That's it.

Right.

He took, it, it, you know, months and months of a little bit of help on this film, a little bit here, staging that number there, and then eventually making his first feature with Cabin in the Sky in 1943.

And then, and, uh, you know, the career that came.

But what's interesting about starting as a window dresser at Marshall Field's, which meant an awful lot and means an awful lot.

But the mobile camera is, there's nothing hidden about it, and I, I...

That's intoxicating.

You see what he's trying to pull off in as early as Cabin in the Sky, but especially, like, in The Clock-

Hmm