Cover Girl (film)

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.

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 doesnt 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 Coudairs 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.Columbia Pictures originally wanted to used Warner Bros. star Dennis Morgan for Cover Girl, but when Kellys project at MGM, Dragon Seed, was postponed, MGM extended their loan of Kelly to Columbia, allowing this film to be made with him. Columbias production head, Harry Cohn, was initially opposed to having Kelly do the film, but producer Schwartz nevertheless obtained him, promising Kelly that he would be able to choreograph, which MGM had not allowed him to do. ........

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