Panama Hattie | |
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Music | Cole Porter |
Lyrics | Cole Porter |
Book | Herbert Fields B. G. DeSylva |
Productions | 1940 Broadway 1942 Film 1943 West End 1954 U.S. Television |
Panama Hattie is a 1940 American musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Herbert Fields and B. G. DeSylva. The musical is about a nightclub owner, Hattie Maloney, who lives in the Panama Canal Zone and ends up dealing with both romantic and military intrigue. The title is a play on words, referring to the popular Panama hat.
The musical was adapted as the 1942 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film Panama Hattie, and again in 1954 as an episode of the CBS TV series The Best of Broadway.