Cover Girl (film)

Cover Girl (film)
Cover Girl

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Charles Vidor
Produced by Arthur Schwartz
Written by Erwin S. Gelsey (story)
Starring Rita Hayworth
Gene Kelly
Music by Saul Chaplin
Morris Stoloff
Cinematography Allen M. Davey
Rudolph Maté
Editing by Viola Lawrence
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) March 20, 1944 (1944-03-20)
Running time 107 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Cover Girl is a 1944 American musical film starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly. The film tells the story of a chorus girl given a chance at stardom when she is offered an opportunity to be a highly-paid cover girl. The film was directed by Charles Vidor, and was one of the most popular musicals of the war years.

Primarily a showcase for Rita Hayworth, the film has lavish modern and 1890s costumes, eight dance routines for Hayworth, and songs by Jerome Kern and Ira Gershwin, including the classic "Long Ago (and Far Away)".

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Plot

A chorus girl named Rusty (Hayworth) working at a nightclub run by her boyfriend Danny McGuire (Kelly) is given a chance for stardom by the wealthy magazine editor John Coudair, who years earlier had been in love with her grandmother, Maribelle Hicks. Offered an opportunity to be a highly-paid cover girl, Rusty would faithfully remain with her nightclub act if only Danny would ask her. He doesn't want to stand in her way, so he picks an argument to send her packing. Rusty becomes a star on Broadway after appearing in a musical produced by Coudair's wealthy friend, Noel Wheaton, and decides to get married to Wheaton. At the last second she leaves the wedding and reunites with Danny.[1]

Cast

The film also features cameo appearances by Jinx Falkenburg and Anita Colby as themselves and a little-known starlet named Shelley Winters as one of the young autograph hounds.

In one of Hollywood's most unique reprise roles, Kelly played Danny McGuire again -- 36 years later -- in 1980's Xanadu.

Musical numbers

Production

Columbia Pictures gave Gene Kelly almost complete control over the making of this film, and many of his ideas contributed to its lasting success. He removed several of the soundstage walls so that he, Hayworth, and Silvers could dance along an entire street in one take. He also used trick photography so that he could dance with his own reflection in the sequence "Alter-Ego Dance", achieved using superimposition to give his "double" a ghost-like quality.

Hayworth's singing voice was dubbed by Martha Mears.

Awards

The film won the 1944 Academy Award for best musical scoring.[2] It was also nominated for four other awards; Best Art Direction (Lionel Banks, Cary Odell, Fay Babcock), Best Cinematography, Best Original Song for "Long Ago (and Far Away)" and Best Sound, Recording (John Livadary).[3]

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