At The Club Savoy Sung By Virginia O'Brien | Panama Hattie | Warner Archive

Panama Hattie (1942) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #PanamaHattie
Hattie Maloney (Ann Sothern) is a gaudy, 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. And Hattie’s got a trio of protectors, three goofball gobs who think that maybe Hattie’s too good for Dick. This World War II musical sparkles with Cole Porter's music and lyrics.
Directed By Norman Z. McLeod, Roy Del Ruth, Vincente Minnelli
Starring Red Skelton, Ann Sothern, Rags Ragland
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[@njlillycline]

She was a stunning woman

[@hiridavidfeign]

Classic 40's voice. What a talent.

[@markwalls9072]

Virginia was a wonderful singer, actress, and entertainer.

[@frankcarter7146]

I LOVE this woman!

[@nealsausen4651]

Yeah you and me both! What a great hairstyle she had to! I would love to be married to her or someone like her

[@sanddab]

Virginia O'Brien, what a beauty!

[@LLS710]

An older friend recommended her to me. He used to go to her parties.

[@boblebovidge7049]

Ginny O'brien could always knock them dead,with her dead-pan expression in a singing session!

[@chrisandersen5635]

Virginia O’Brien. Oh my. Still have a crush.

[@JMDinOKC]

Virginia O'Brien's trademark comedic "gimmick" was to sing songs with practically no expression or movement. This is a reasonably typical example. When not singing, she "acted" normally.

[@Ramblin-Man]

"Deadpan singing"...it's her 100th b-day today!

[@richardgaddy8091]

I love this number! From what I've read, it was initially meant for Betty Hutton, but the studio felt it would 'tarnish' her good gal image and pulled it. Thankfully Virginia got this!

[@ronjohnson5248]

I was just this second thinking hutton must have sung this at some point. I guess they both do comic songs with strong rhythmic elements.

[@rachelarruda1475]

Virginia o brien 💕

[@SteveLittleLivesHere]

WOW so good to see a clear print of this number!

[@artsmith5542]

Steve Little The stereo sound is amazing

[@ImmortalChaos]

Stunning.

[@patrickfallon6192]

I like her

[@leprechaunstud582]

Ann Sothern was originally set to sing this number, but she refused to do it because she thought it vulgar and in poor taste, so O'Brien stepped in.

[@gregorypalmer5403]

Great one. Thanks. Have always been a " Susie" fan. This O Brienwoman gives me the creeps..

[@esmeephillips5888]

Ann and the studio were trying to polish her image, lifting her out of the B-picture floozie category by giving her a Cole Porter show. Metro kept the Maisie series going in case the change did not click, but in 'Lady Be Good', the year before 'Panama Hattie', Ann had flounced around in furs and rubbed shoulders with socialites as Robert Young's song-lyricist spouse. In any case, Sothern and few others could put over smart lines the way Virginia did. Her unchanging expression did not distract audiences from the words.

[@juliag.5114]

at least virginia had a sense of humor

[@chrissmith3369]

By any standard Virginia O'Brien was hot 🔥🔥 🔥❤❤❤

[@NeelLLumi-AnCatDubh]

Is this ‘Last Friday Night’

[@k.m.h7480]

I like her voice but that woman always looked like a stone . Never smiled but I love her voice and she was a very attractive singer/actress

[@joshadcock1035]

That was on purpose. It's her schtick.

[@colesmith1256]

2:13

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2:21

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2:29

[@hebneh]

Getting incredibly drunk is, according to this song, just lots of fun and something to brag about.

[@michaelcioni8599]

I think it's more about "confessing" what you did the night before and the inevitable regret you have the day after.

[@keikekaze]

1942 wasn't **that** long after Prohibition ended, in 1933. Prohibition ended, and for the next 20 years at least Americans considered it virtually their patriotic duty to drink their eyeballs out, because at last they **could,** and as a statement against the forces of repression and intolerance. And because everyone was sick of the violent crime that Prohibition had ushered in. And the song is, of course, meant to be a joke.

[@dougpiranha3619]

Nice singer with a unique schtick, but docked a notch for being daughter of an L.A. policeman.

[@kayjohayden]

she couldn't help who she was born to? 💀

[@larrybarnett9249]

Love her and cops

[@gideonhaywood4668]

Seriously? That is the dumbest reason I've ever heard of someone hating a celebrity. She was also a registered republican does that make her just worst person in the world to you now 😂

[@blueeyedbehr]

@@gideonhaywood4668 some people just want to hate for any reason they can find. doug piranha is one of them.

[@larrybarnett9249]

Go Trump.all the way to the Savoy