Straight to Heaven

{{short description|1939 film}}

Straight to Heaven is an American film released in 1939.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4n1ZAAAAMAAJ&q=straight+to+heaven+nina+mae+mckinney|title=Blacks in Black and White: A Source Book on Black Films|first=Henry T.|last=Sampson|date=September 28, 1995|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810826052|via=Google Books}} It was produced by Million Dollar Productions. It was advertised as having an all colored cast. Arthur A. Leonard directed. Sack Amusement Enterprises was the distributor.

The story features a cabaret singer, her singer son, and the criminal underworld.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gT-DDwAAQBAJ&q=straight+to+heaven+nina+mae+mckinney&pg=PT42|title=Nina Mae McKinney: The Black Garbo|first=Stephen|last=Bourne|date=17 July 2012 |publisher=BearManor Media|via=Google Books}} The film starred Nina Mae McKinney in her last major film role and Jackie Ward, a 12 year old performer from Harlem.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9788924/ "Bobby Breen's Sepia Double To Be Featured On NAACP Benefit Bill"], New York Age, December 23, 1939, front page. Ward performs three songs in the film and McKinney one.