Cover Girl (1944) |
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Cover Girl Cast |
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Rita Hayworth
(as Rusty Parker nicknamed 'Chicken' | Maribelle Hicks)
with Gene Kelly
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Other InformationAwardsBest Sound, Recording Academy Awards [1945] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Music, Original Song Academy Awards [1945] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Cinematography, Color Academy Awards [1945] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color Academy Awards [1945] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture Academy Awards [1945] (Won/Nominated: Won) Plot SummaryThanks to its Jerome Kern/Ira Gershwin/Yip Harburg score and the luminescence of stars Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly, Cover Girl has taken on a legendary status in recent years. In truth, the film has a banal and predictable premise: a chorus girl (Ha... TaglineTOO THRILLING FOR WORDS...SO THEY SET IT TO MUSIC, ROMANCE, DANCE AND SONG! (original poster - all caps) A Mirthful, Magical Musical ! DiscographySinglesCover Girl (That Girl on the Cover) Alter-Ego Dance Poor John Put Me to the Test Make Way For Tomorrow Sure Thing Who`s Complaining? The Show Must Go On |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Genius: You know something? I love him too.
Danny McGuire: Yeah?
Genius: You know why?
Danny McGuire: Why?
Genius: Because he`s dumber than me.
Danny McGuire: Dumber than I.
Genius: Okay. Then he`s dumber than the both of us.
[Danny winces]
Noel Wheaton: That`s my one virtue. I have nice friends.
Danny McGuire: [indicates Noel Wheaton] This gentleman has been in the theater a good many years.
[to Wheaton]
Danny McGuire: Now, you`ve been in my theater a good many years too. Why don`t you be a good boy and scram?
Danny McGuire: If I`m sorry nothing came of it, I`m a liar. If I`m glad, I`m a heel. Where do we go from here?
John Coudair: What would you do if your youth should walk in that door?
Cornelia `Stonewall` Jackson: I`d put braces on its teeth.
Genius: I don`t feel good.
Rusty Parker: Oh, you don`t? Where?
Genius: In the hall.
Trivia During the middle of shooting Rita Hayworth eloped with Orson Welles. Coincidentally the film`s wedding scene was shot that day. The song "Put Me To the Test" was a complete reworking of an instrumental used in the 1937 Fred Astaire musical "A Damsel in Distress". The lyrics for it had already been written by Ira Gershwin, and the original melody by his brother George, but because the song had already been heard only as an instrumental in that film, George Gershwin`s melody was discarded in favor of a new one by Jerome Kern when "Cover Girl" was made, and Ira Gershwin`s lyrics to the song were finally heard. As she stated in her autobiography, Lauren Bacall had been wanted by Columbia to appear in this film as Harper`s Bazaar cover girl (as she had appeared on Harper`s Bazaar cover in March 1943), but instead filmed To Have and Have Not (1944) at Warner Bros. and became a star. Rita Hayworth`s singing voice was dubbed by Martha Mears. Columbia Pictures gave Gene Kelly almost complete control over the making of this film, and many of his ideas contributed to its lasting success. He removed several of the soundstage walls so that he, Rita Hayworth, and Phil Silvers could dance along an entire street in one take. He also used trick photography so that he could dance with himself in one sequence. | ||
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