Cover Girl (1944) on Netflix
NR19441h 47mComedyMusicalRomance
Rusty Parker dances at her boyfriend Danny McGuire's Brooklyn nightclub and enters a contest for a magazine cover. Its editor, John Coudair, notes her resemblance to a showgirl he loved.
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Plot summary
At a nightclub in Brooklyn, chorus girl Rusty Parker wants a Broadway career. Another showgirl there enters a contest for a magazine cover, and Rusty enters too. John Coudair, who edits the magazine, comes to the club and his eye goes to Rusty; she reminds him of Maribelle Hicks, a showgirl he loved forty years earlier. Danny, the boyfriend who runs the club, fears that success will take her away from him, though she would stay if he asked. Coudair brings the producer Noel Wheaton to watch her perform, and Noel offers her a job in a Broadway show of his own.
Cast
- Jean Colleranas Cover Girl: American Magazine
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- Francine Counihanas Cover Girl: American Home
- Helen Muelleras Cover Girl: Collier's Magazine
- Cecilia Meagheras Cover Girl: Coronet
- Betty Jane Hessas Cover Girl: Cosmopolitan
- Eileen McCloryas Cover Girl: Glamour
- Cornelia B. von Hessertas Cover Girl: Harper's Bazaar
- Karen X. Gaylordas Cover Girl: Liberty
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Cover Girl (1944)
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- Columbia wanted Warner Bros. star Dennis Morgan for the lead, but when Gene Kelly's MGM project Dragon Seed was postponed, MGM extended Kelly's loan to Columbia so the film could be made with him. Studio head Harry Cohn opposed Kelly, but producer Schwartz got him by promising he could choreograph, which MGM had not allowed.
- Gene Kelly had several soundstage walls removed so that he, Rita Hayworth and Phil Silvers could dance along an entire street in one take, and used trick photography with superimposition to dance opposite his own reflection in the "Alter-Ego Dance" sequence.
- Thirty-six years after Cover Girl, Gene Kelly played Danny McGuire again in the 1980 film Xanadu, one of Hollywood's most unusual reprised roles; Xanadu was based on the 1947 movie Down to Earth starring Rita Hayworth.
- The success of Cover Girl made MGM treat Gene Kelly as a viable property and let him create his own dance numbers for Anchors Aweigh (1945) with Frank Sinatra. Columbia bought Pal Joey hoping to pair Kelly with Hayworth again, but MGM refused to loan him out and the lead went to Sinatra.
- Cover Girl was Columbia Pictures' first Technicolor musical, and it was also the first time the songwriter Arthur Schwartz ventured into producing.
- Rita Hayworth's singing voice in Cover Girl was dubbed by Martha Mears; the film was Hayworth's fourth musical and followed two she had made opposite Fred Astaire.
- Cover Girl marked the first film collaboration of Jerome Kern and Ira Gershwin, the pair who wrote its songs together.
