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CREDITS
1942, 79 minutes, B&W.
Producer, Arthur Freed; Director, Norman Z. McLeod; Screenplay, Jack McGowan and Wilkie Mahoney; Music Direction, George Stoll; Cinematography, George Folsey; Art Direction, Cedric Gibbons; Choreography, Danny Dare; Musical Numbers Staged by Vincente Minnelli.
CAST
Hattie Maloney, Ann Sothern; Dick Bulliet, Dan Dailey; Red, Red Skelton; Leila Tree, Marsha Hunt; Flo Foster, Virginia O'Brien; Rags, Rags Ragland; Jay Jerkins, Alan Mowbray; Rowdy, Ben Blue; Geraldine Bulliet, Jackie Horner; Lucas Kefler, Carl Esmond; Admiral Tree, Pierre Watkin; Colonel John Briggs, Stanley Andrews; Lena Horne and The Berry Brothers.
SONGS
Just One of Those Things; Let's Be Buddies; I've Still Got My Health; Make It Another Old Fashioned Please; Fresh As a Daisy by Cole Porter; The Sping by Phil Moore and J. LeGon; Did I Get Stinkin' At the Savoy by E.Y. Harburg and Walter Donaldson; The Son of a Gun Who Picks on Uncle Sam by Harburg and Burton Lane; Hattie from Panama; Good Neighbors by Roger Edens; Berry Me Not by Phil Moore; La Bumba Rhumba by Alex Hyde; Hail Hail the Gang's All Here by Theodore F. Morse.
PLOT SYNOPSIS
"Hattie Maloney (Ann Sothern) is a guady, good-hearted nightclub singer who tends to love above her station. This time, it's pedigreed officer Dick Bulliet (Dan Dailey, Jr.), and it's for real. But there's one little problem: he's got a small daughter so ladylike she makes Emily Post look like Tugboat Annie - and she's not impressed with Hattie's bangles and bows, or her 'dems' and 'dose.' And Hattie's got a trio of protectors, three goofball gobs who think that maybe Hattie's too good for Dick."
- Liner Notes for Turner/MGM-UA Videotape
NOTES
"Having paid $130,000 for the screen rights to Cole Porter's Broadway hit Panama Hattie, MGM retained its title but precious little else. The results were pretty dire and reduced Porter's galvanic show. . .to an incohesive blur."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical
"A sad disappointment, though Lena Horne is ravishing, and when she sings you can forget the rest of the picture."
- Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights At The Movies
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