Panama Hattie

Film Version

Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
(and Others)
Screenplay by Jack McGowan and
Wilkie Mahoney; based on the musical,
book by Herbert Fields and B. G. DeSylva

An Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Release
(1942; 79 minutes; B & W)
Produced by Arthur Freed
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Music Direction by George Stoll
Cinematography by George Folsey
Art Direction by Cedric Gibbons
Set Design by Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt
Costumes by Kalloch
Choreography by Danny Dare
Musical Numbers Staged by Vincente Minnelli

Cast

Red Skelton (Red)
Ann Sothern (Hattie Maloney)
Rags Ragland (Rags)
Ben Blue (Rowdy)
Marsha Hunt (Leila Tree)
Virginia O'Brien (Flo Foster)
Alan Mowbray (Jay Jerkins)
Dan Dailey, Jr. (Dick Bulliet)
Jackie Horner (Geraldine Bulliet)

Carl Esmond (Lucas Kefler), Pierre Watkin (Admiral Tree), Stanley Andrews (Colonel John Briggs), Lena Horne and The Berry Brothers.

Musical Numbers

Written by Cole Porter:

• "Just One of Those Things" - Lena Horne [from Jubilee]
• "Let's Be Buddies" - Ann Sothern and Jackie Horner
• "I've Still Got My Health" - Ann Sothern
• "Make It Another Old Fashioned Please" - Ann Sothern
• "Fresh As a Daisy" - Virginia O'Brien
• "They Ain't Done Right By Our Nell" [music only]

Written by others:

• "The Sping" [Phil Moore and J. LeGon]
• "Did I Get Stinkin' At the Savoy" [E. Y. Harburg and Walter Donaldson]
• "The Son of a Gun Who Picks on Uncle Sam" [E. Y. Harburg and Burton Lane]
• "Hattie from Panama" [Roger Edens]
• "I'll Do Anything for You" [Roger Edens]
• "Good Neighbors" [Roger Edens]
• "Berry Me Not" [Phil Moore]
• "La Bumba Rhumba" [Alex Hyde]
• "Hail Hail the Gang's All Here" [Theodore F. Morse]

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