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Cover Girl is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Budd Boetticher released in USA on 6 april 1944 with Rita Hayworth

Cover Girl (1944)

Cover Girl
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Released in USA 6 april 1944
Length 1h47
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Romantic comedy,    Musical,    Romance
Rating66% 3.3471653.3471653.3471653.3471653.347165

Cover Girl is a 1944 American Technicolor 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)".

Synopsis

Rusty (Rita Hayworth), a chorus girl working at a nightclub run by her boyfriend Danny McGuire (Gene Kelly), is given a chance for stardom by the wealthy magazine editor John Coudair (Otto Kruger), 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 (Lee Bowman), and decides to get married to Wheaton. At the last second she leaves the wedding and reunites with Danny.

Actors

Rita Hayworth

(Rusty Parker / Maribelle Hicks (flashback sequence))
Gene Kelly

(Danny McGuire)
Phil Silvers

(Genius)
Otto Kruger

(John Coudair)
Eve Arden

(Cornelia 'Stonewall' Jackson)
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