My Heart Belongs to Daddy

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Excerpt from the Wikipedia article, adapted:

My Heart Belongs to Daddy (Cole Porter) was written by Cole Porter for the 1938 musical Leave It to Me! which premiered on Nov 9, 1938. The number was performed by Mary Martin who played Dolly Winslow, the young protégée of an elderly ambassador, Alonzo P. Goodhue. She is stranded at a Siberian railway station, wearing only a fur coat, and performs a striptease while performing the song.

She sang it again in the 1940 movie Love Thy Neighbor. Again she wears a fur coat, but the setting is a show within a show and the act is more conventional as she wears an evening gown beneath the fur. In the 1946 Cole Porter biopic Night and Day she portrays herself and again performs a striptease, discarding a muff and then the fur coat.

In Britain, the song was a hit for the stage actress Pat Kirkwood who performed it in the 1938 revue Black Velvet, making her the first wartime star.

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The series of photos below feature Mary Martin as she does a striptease during the “My Heart Belongs to Daddy” (Cole Porter) number in the December 1, 1938 performance of the Broadway musical Leave It to Me!. The show premiered on 9 Nov 1938. Mary Martin played Dolly Winslow, the young protégée of an elderly ambassador, Alonzo P. Goodhue.

As the number opens, Dolly is stranded at a Siberian railway station, wearing only a fur coat over what appears to be either a light, silky summer outfit or delicate nightwear (image 3). She eventually strips down to her undergarments (images 3-5). Later in the number, she puts the coat back on over her shoulders (image 6), and then over her arms as well (image 7), but continues to hold the coat open, or perhaps repeatedly does so.

Credits, for the following seven images: photos by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1 Dec 1938, only three weeks after the opening of the show — Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

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Mary Martin with Eddy Duchin and his Orchestra – recorded on 2 December 1938 (1, 2, 3, 4); issued in 1939 on the 78 rpm single Brunswick 8282, as the B-side of “Most Gentlemen Don’t Like Love” (Cole Porter)

audio file, VBR MP3 (5.8 MB), from this page at archive.org:

Carroll Gibbons and his Orchestra, vocal by Anne Lenner — 1938

Ella Fitzgerald – The provider says this track is from The Essential Ella Fitzgerald, Vol. 5. I presume it’s the same early Decca recording available on The Early Years, Part 2 which covers the years 1939-41; I don’t know the recording date.

Mary Martin in the “highly fictionalized and sanitized version” of Cole Porter’s life, Night and Day (1946)

Artie Shaw and his Orchestra, vocal by Kitty Kallen — recorded on 26 June 1946

Julie London – from the album All Through the Night, 1956

Dorothy Dandridge — Episode #11 of TV show Ford Star Jubilee, entitled You’re the Top, presumably a tribute to the music of Cole Porter, broadcast on 6 October 1956