Enter the Berry Brothers, who  perform a dance routine that ends with the trio leaping from a high balcony over the entire orchestra, landing in splits.

Dick Bullard, a soldier from a rich family in Philadelphia, but she is worried about meeting Gerry, his 8-year-old daughter from a previous marriage.

Hattie is a flamboyant dresser off stage as well as on, adding ruffles, feathers, bows, frills and furbelows, pompoms and jewelry wherever there is room on a dress, hat or parasol.

The sailors pursue three Panamanian girls, singing and dancing to "Good Neighbors," ending with a kiss.

Flo sings the same song, with a jive beat, to the deadpan Jerkins, pursuing him until he is stretched across her lap.

Leila accuses Hattie of putting Red up to it and warns her that she will be in Dick's way if they marry.

A secret door in the fireplace, the armoire, a revolving panel on a high ledge over a pit of alligators and an unseen gunman create chaos until a bullet ignites the chemicals and the house blows up.

Hattie starts singing “The Son of a Gun Who Picks on Uncle Sam” and the cast joins in.

Substantial retakes were directed by Roy Del Ruth with choreography by Danny Dare and musical numbers staged by Vincente Minnelli.

[2] The cast featured Red Skelton as Red, Ann Sothern as Hattie Maloney, Rags Ragland as Rags, Ben Blue as Rowdy, Marsha Hunt as Leila Tree, Virginia O'Brien as Flo Foster, Alan Mowbray as Jay Jerkins, Dan Dailey as Dick Bulliard and Lena Horne as Singer in Phil's Place.

[2] Songs used in the film are as follows:[2] In his October 2, 1942 review in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther waxed poetic, but it was no tribute: “Panama Hattie" was finished last Fall.

…Now all that is left is the title, a couple of Cole Porter songs, one minor comedy sequence and Rags Ragland, looking very forlorn.

The blithesome Ann Sothern, who should have been sharp in the title role, is virtually placed in quarantine … And the usually Irrepressible Red Skelton is so held in check in this film that his favorite expression, "I dood it," is this time an idle boast.To be sure, some of the music is fetching.

Virginia O'Brien sings "Fresh as a Daisy" humorously, though her other number, "At the Savoy," is in decidedly questionable taste.