Panama Hattie

A stand-alone scene featuring no other cast members, so that theater owners in the South could remove it if they chose, Lena Horne as herself happens to appear at the club in the Canal Zone, with a Cole Porter tune, her first scene in her first MGM picture, from Panama Hattie, 1942.

Title character Ann Sothern with pal Flo (Virginia O’Brien) plans to impress “Gerry” (Jackie Horner), the snooty young visiting daughter of her Canal Zone-based soldier fiancè Dick (Dan Dailey), who’s brought butler Jerkins (Alan Mowbray) from Philadelphia, in MGM’s Panama Hattie, 1942.

Opening scene with the chorus then Ann Sothern in the title role, with a Cole Porter tune Ethel Merman sang in the Broadway production, Red Skelton, Rags Ragland and Ben Blue her admiring sailors, in MGM’s Panama Hattie, 1942.

A nightclub owner in Panama takes on Nazi spies in Panama Hattie (1942), starring Ann Sothern, Red Skelton & Lena Horne.