Cover Girl

1944

Action / Comedy / Music / Musical / Romance

14
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 71% · 18 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 71% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 6423 6.4K

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Plot summary

A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

Director

Charles Vidor Photo
Charles Vidor

Top cast

Ethelreda Leopold Photo
Ethelreda Leopold as Wedding Guest
Betty Jane Graham Photo
Betty Jane Graham as Cover Girl: McCalls
Barbara Pepper Photo
Barbara Pepper as Chorus Girl
Sam Flint Photo
Sam Flint as Coudair's Butler
1080p.BluRay
1.64 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 47 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by whpratt1 7 / 10

Long Ago & Far Away

This is definitely an outstanding 1944 musical with great young stars and famous veteran actors under the direction of Charles Vidor. Rita Hayworth, (Rusty Parker),"Charlie Chan in Egypt", sang and danced with Gene Kelly,(Danny McGuire), "Anchors Away", Danny McGuire owned a night club in Brooklyn, N.Y. and was in love with Rusty Parker who was a dancer in his club along with Phil Silvers,(Genius),"Coney Island", who was the comedian in this picture and also worked and dance together with Danny, Rusty. Otto Kruger, (John Coudair),"Duel in the Sun" played the role as a promoter of a cover girl magazine and decided Rusty Parker was going to be his top model. Jerome Kern's music is heard through out the entire picture and the song, "Long Ago & Far Away" is the theme music for this musical. This film was nominated for many awards and was a big hit at the box office during WW II which kept peoples minds off of the war that was going on at the time. Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly were instant hits and their career's exploded on the silver screen for many many years. Great Musical and a film you will not want to miss, this is truly a great Classic Film. Enjoy
Reviewed by alfiefamily 6 / 10

Beautiful Rita, Kern score and Phil Silvers dancing!!!

Two of these things are to be expected, the third is a complete surprise (that would be Phil Silvers dancing).This is a delightful, if longer than it needs to be musical. A sub-plot with flashbacks and probably the worst Jerome Kern number ever written (Poor John), do not contribute enough to make them worthwhile. It's as if they wrote the movie, realized they didn't have enough material to produce a full-length picture, and added these other scenes to "fill it out". They don't work.It's funny to see a 1940's musical with Gene Kelly (on loan from M-G-M)clearly taking a backseat to his leading lady. His second act number where he dances with himself is one highlight of the film. Other strong points are "Make Way For Tomorrow" and the lovely, "Long Ago And Far Away" (although I thought it odd that the latter number did not have a dance sequence attached to it). "Put Me To The Test", a number where Rita and Gene get to dance together, is a very good number, but the title song does nothing for me, although it is staged wonderfully.Rita Hayworth is absolutely breath-taking. Her dancing is excellent, and this is clearly a role that suits her. Some of her hair pieces, however are awful. In a few scenes, the color of them do not match the color of her natural hair. Very distracting.Phil Silvers is wonderful as Genius, Gene and Rita's friend and co-worker. Seeing him dance, especially as well as he did, was a wonderful surprise.The major problem I had with this movie was that I never believed the relationship between the three leads. I didn't believe that Kelly and Hayworth were in love, or that Kelly and Silvers were real friends. Can't quite put my finger on it, but I didn't buy it.Excellent supporting work by Eve Arden, Otto Kruger, Edward Brophy and Leslie Brooks.6 out of 10
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