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Cover Girl

  • 19441944
  • PassedPassed
  • 1h 47m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
5.5K
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Rita Hayworth in Cover Girl (1944)
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  • Comedy
  • Music
  • Musical
Rusty Parker wins a contest and becomes a celebrated cover girl; this endangers her romance with dancing mentor Danny.Rusty Parker wins a contest and becomes a celebrated cover girl; this endangers her romance with dancing mentor Danny.Rusty Parker wins a contest and becomes a celebrated cover girl; this endangers her romance with dancing mentor Danny.
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
5.5K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Charles Vidor
  • Writers
    • Virginia Van Upp(screenplay)
    • Marion Parsonnet(adaptation)
    • Paul Gangelin(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Rita Hayworth
    • Gene Kelly
    • Lee Bowman
Top credits
  • Director
    • Charles Vidor
  • Writers
    • Virginia Van Upp(screenplay)
    • Marion Parsonnet(adaptation)
    • Paul Gangelin(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Rita Hayworth
    • Gene Kelly
    • Lee Bowman
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 83User reviews
    • 43Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 1 win & 4 nominations total

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    Cover Girl
    Trailer 2:07
    Cover Girl
    COVER GIRL (New & Exclusive Masters of Cinema) Trailer
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    Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly in Cover Girl (1944)
    Rita Hayworth in Cover Girl (1944)
    Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly in Cover Girl (1944)
    Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly in Cover Girl (1944)
    Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly in Cover Girl (1944)
    Rita Hayworth in Cover Girl (1944)
    Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Eve Arden, Lee Bowman, Leslie Brooks, and Otto Kruger in Cover Girl (1944)
    Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly in Cover Girl (1944)
    Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly in Cover Girl (1944)
    Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly in Cover Girl (1944)
    Rita Hayworth and Lee Bowman in Cover Girl (1944)
    Gene Kelly and Phil Silvers in Cover Girl (1944)

    Top cast

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    Rita Hayworth
    Rita Hayworth
    • Rusty Parker…
    Gene Kelly
    Gene Kelly
    • Danny McGuire
    Lee Bowman
    Lee Bowman
    • Noel Wheaton
    Phil Silvers
    Phil Silvers
    • Genius
    Jinx Falkenburg
    Jinx Falkenburg
    • Jinx Falkenburg
    Leslie Brooks
    Leslie Brooks
    • Maurine Martin
    Eve Arden
    Eve Arden
    • Cornelia Jackson
    Otto Kruger
    Otto Kruger
    • John Coudair
    Jess Barker
    Jess Barker
    • John Coudair as a Young Man
    Anita Colby
    Anita Colby
    • Miss Colby
    Curt Bois
    Curt Bois
    • Chef at Danny McGuire's
    Jean Colleran
    Jean Colleran
    • Cover Girl: American Magazine
    Francine Counihan
    Francine Counihan
    • Cover Girl: American Home
    Helen Mueller
    Helen Mueller
    • Cover Girl: Collier's Magazine
    Cecilia Meagher
    Cecilia Meagher
    • Cover Girl: Coronet
    Betty Jane Hess
    Betty Jane Hess
    • Cover Girl: Cosmopolitan Magazine
    Dusty Anderson
    Dusty Anderson
    • Cover Girl: Farm Journal Magazine
    Eileen McClory
    Eileen McClory
    • Cover Girl: Glamour Magazine
    • Director
      • Charles Vidor
    • Writers
      • Virginia Van Upp(screenplay)
      • Marion Parsonnet(adaptation)
      • Paul Gangelin(adaptation)
    • All cast & crew
    • See more cast details at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      During the middle of shooting Rita Hayworth eloped with Orson Welles. Coincidentally the film's wedding scene was shot that day.
    • Goofs
      The guests at the 1904 wedding are the same people, wearing the same clothes and hairstyles, as the guests at the 1944 wedding. Of particular note are the young girl wearing a giant red flower as a hat, and the white-haired old lady with white boa feathers on the side of her head.
    • Quotes

      Genius: You know something? I love him too.

      Danny McGuire: Yeah?

      Genius: You know why?

      Danny McGuire: Why?

      Genius: Because he's dumber than me.

      Danny McGuire: Dumber than I.

      Genius: Okay. Then he's dumber than the both of us.

      [Danny winces]

    • Alternate versions
      There is an Italian DVD edition of this movie, distributed by DNA Srl, entitled "Cover Girl". The movie was re-edited with the contribution of the film history scholar Riccardo Cusin. This dvd contains the movie with its original aspect ratio and a new version adapted in 1.78:1 anamorphic for 16:9 screens. This version is also available in streaming on some platforms. This DVD also contains another movie with Gene Kelly: " Du Barry Was a Lady" (1943).
    • Connections
      Edited into American Masters: Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer (2002)
    • Soundtracks
      The Show Must Go On
      (uncredited)

      Music by Jerome Kern

      Lyrics by Ira Gershwin

      Performed by Rita Hayworth (dubbed by Martha Mears), Leslie Brooks and Chorus

    User reviews83

    Review
    Top review
    A Sparkling Hayworth
    Rusty's a popular singer-dancer for small-timer Mcguire's club, but gets her head turned by fancy impresario Wheaton who wants her to leave her friends and take her talents to his swanky uptown stage show.

    Talk about eye candy. There's enough glamour here to send guys into a sugar overload. I hope they didn't show this WWII production overseas, otherwise a million GI's would be swimming home. I've seen a sexier Hayworth, but never a more sparkling one. She's obviously enjoying herself, and why not, she's got Kelly as a partner and a goofy Silvers to keep her in stitches. And get a load of the hats the gals wear. Some look like they're getting messages from Mars.

    Okay, except for "Long Ago and Far Away", the tunes are pretty forgettable, while that set-up in the trooper cattle car should have been seriously re-thought. Still, I thought that dancing threesome down the city street was utterly charming, and reminded me of Kelly's signature number in Singin' in the Rain (1952). Then too, actor Bowman (Wheaton) makes a perfect Manhattan lounge lizard.

    For younger folks, there were a lot of references to Brooklyn during the war. That's because the New York borough came to symbolize the common man and the American melting pot-- in short, the kind of national unity that winning the war would need. So, naturally, good guy McGuire (Kelly) has his stage show there, while slickster Wheaton has his in more snobbish uptown Manhattan. So Rusty (Hayworth) has to learn it's more fun to crack oysters in a Brooklyn bar than sip martinis in an swanky lounge.

    Anyhow, it's hard to think of a brighter, more colorful production than this line-up of Hollywood glamour that keeps "comin' at yuh", one pretty face after another.
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    • Apr 20, 2013

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    • Release date
      • April 6, 1944 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Devojka sa naslovne strane
    • Production company
      • Columbia Pictures
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 47 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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