{"id":20664,"date":"2011-11-30T11:53:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T18:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=20664"},"modified":"2021-01-09T20:47:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T03:47:55","slug":"cover-girl-1944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=20664","title":{"rendered":"Cover Girl (1944)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;You&#8217;re gonna be a big star, Rusty &#8212; but you gotta get down on your feet, not your face.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Poster-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Poster-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Poster-81x128.jpg 81w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Poster.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA dancer (Rita Hayworth) performing in a nightclub owned by her boyfriend (Gene Kelly) is selected as a new &#8220;cover girl&#8221; by a magazine magnate (Otto Krueger) who was once in love with her look-alike grandmother (also Hayworth); soon Hayworth finds her loyalties torn between Kelly and a young producer (Lee Bowman) who promises her fame and fortune.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aspiring Stars<\/li>\n<li>Eve Arden Films<\/li>\n<li>Gene Kelly Films<\/li>\n<li>Love Triangle<\/li>\n<li>Models<\/li>\n<li>Musicals<\/li>\n<li>Rita Hayworth Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nRita Hayworth was a top box-office draw at the time she made this enormously popular Technicolor musical for Columbia Pictures. Unfortunately, its cliched storyline &#8212; revolving around Hayworth&#8217;s quick rise to fame, and the tension this causes in those she &#8220;leaves behind&#8221;, particularly her loyal boyfriend &#8212; isn&#8217;t innovative enough to hold one&#8217;s attention, and hasn&#8217;t aged all that well. Hayworth&#8217;s wealthy suitor (Bowman) is about as charismatic as a wet rag:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Bowman2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Bowman2-1024x758.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"474\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-62624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Bowman2-1024x758.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Bowman2-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Bowman2-128x95.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Bowman2-768x569.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Bowman2-365x270.png 365w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Bowman2.png 1357w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and Kelly&#8217;s frustration with Hayworth&#8217;s desire to take a &#8220;short-cut&#8221; to success (made possible due to a silly plot contrivance involving her uncanny resemblance to her grandmother) seems uncharitable at best. Meanwhile, only one of the songs in Jerome Kern and Ira Gershwin&#8217;s Oscar-nominated score &#8212; the ballad &#8220;Long Ago and Far Away&#8221; &#8212; lingers in one&#8217;s memory, and this is likely due to its use as the film&#8217;s overall musical motif. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Long-Ago-Far-Away.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Long-Ago-Far-Away-1024x772.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"483\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-62621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Long-Ago-Far-Away-1024x772.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Long-Ago-Far-Away-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Long-Ago-Far-Away-128x97.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Long-Ago-Far-Away-768x579.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Long-Ago-Far-Away-358x270.png 358w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Long-Ago-Far-Away.png 1359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, <em>Cover Girl<\/em> remains worth a look simply to watch lovely Hayworth performing some fine dance numbers (she&#8217;s incredibly light on her feet), and to see Kelly&#8217;s &#8220;Alter-Ego&#8221; routine, in which he dances with &#8220;himself&#8221; &#8212; he purportedly labeled it &#8220;the most difficult thing [he&#8217;d] ever done, a technical torture&#8221;, but his efforts paid off, to stunning effect. Watch for Eve Arden in a standard supporting role as Krueger&#8217;s wisecracking assistant:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Arden.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Arden-1024x760.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"475\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-62620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Arden-1024x760.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Arden-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Arden-128x95.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Arden-768x570.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Arden-364x270.png 364w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Arden.png 1359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and Phil Silvers as Hayworth and Kelly&#8217;s annoyingly abrasive dance partner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Silvers.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Silvers-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-62619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Silvers-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Silvers-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Silvers-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Silvers-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Silvers-360x270.png 360w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Silvers.png 1369w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rudolph Mate&#8217;s Technicolor cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Hayworth2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Hayworth2-1024x766.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-62626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Hayworth2-1024x766.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Hayworth2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Hayworth2-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Hayworth2-768x575.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Hayworth2-361x270.png 361w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Hayworth2.png 1375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Fine dancing by Hayworth and Kelly, and enjoyable choreography by Kelly and Stanley Donen<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Dance.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Dance-1024x759.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"474\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-62625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Dance-1024x759.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Dance-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Dance-128x95.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Dance-768x569.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Dance-364x270.png 364w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Dance.png 1375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kelly&#8217;s impressive &#8220;Alter Ego Dance&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Alter-Ego2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Alter-Ego2-1024x780.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"488\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-62622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Alter-Ego2-1024x780.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Alter-Ego2-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Alter-Ego2-128x97.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Alter-Ego2-768x585.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Alter-Ego2-355x270.png 355w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Alter-Ego2.png 1359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>The colorful &#8220;cover girl&#8221; montage<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Models.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Models-1024x757.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"473\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-62623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Models-1024x757.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Models-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Models-128x95.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Models-768x568.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Models-365x270.png 365w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cover-Girl-Models.png 1379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; this one is only must-see for Kelly or Hayworth fans. But it&#8217;s worth a look simply for the dancing. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0036723\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1944\/03\/31\/archives\/cover-girl-with-rita-hayworth-and-gene-kelly-at-the-music-hall-her.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/27433\/cover-girl#articles-reviews?articleId=152546\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/movies\/cover-girl\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re gonna be a big star, Rusty &#8212; but you gotta get down on your feet, not your face.&#8221; Synopsis: A dancer (Rita Hayworth) performing in a nightclub owned by her boyfriend (Gene Kelly) is selected as a new &#8220;cover girl&#8221; by a magazine magnate (Otto Krueger) who was once in love with her look-alike grandmother (also Hayworth); soon Hayworth finds her loyalties torn between Kelly and a young producer (Lee Bowman) who promises her fame and fortune. Genres, Themes,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=20664\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20664"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62628,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20664\/revisions\/62628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}