Cover Girl

Director: Charles Vidor

Overview

"Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly star in the 1944 musical comedy Cover Girl, released on DVD from Columbia TriStar. Presented with a standard full screen transfer and Dolby Digital Surround Sound. Subtitles are available in English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean

Product Details

Release Date:	05/13/2008
UPC:	0043396100879
Original Release:	1944
Rating:	NR
Source:	Sony Pictures
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:47:00
Sales rank:	12,170

Special Features

Closed Caption; [None specified]

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Rita Hayworth	Rusty Parker/Maribelle Hicks
Gene Kelly	Danny McGuire
Lee Bowman	Noel Wheaton
Phil Silvers	Genius
Eve Arden	Cornelia Jackson
Jinx Falkenburg	Jinx
Leslie Brooks	Maurine Martin
Otto Kruger	John Coudair
Jess Barker	Coudair (as a young man)
Anita Colby	Anita
Edward Brophy	Joe,Joe
Thurston Hall	Tony Pastor
Curt Bois	Chem
Jean Colleran	Cover Girl
Francine Counihan	Cover Girl
Helen Mueller	Cover Girl
Cecilia Meagher	Cover Girl
Betty Jane Hess	Cover Girl
Dusty Anderson	Cover Girl
Eileen McClory	Cover Girl
Cornelia B. von Hessert	Cover Girl
Karen X. Gaylord	Cover Girl
Cheryl Archibald	Cover Girl
Peggy Lloyd	Cover Girl
Betty Jane Graham	Cover Girl,Cover Girl Contestant
Martha Outlaw	Cover Girl
Susann Shaw	Cover Girl,Cover Girl: Vogue
Rose May Robson	Cover Girl
Jack Norton	Harry the Drunk
Robert E. Homans	Pop the Doorman
Eddie Dunn	Mac the Cop
Sam Flint	Butler
Shelley Winters	Girl
Kathleen O'Malley	Cigarette Girl
William Kline	Chauffeur
Victor Travers	Bartender
Robert Hill	Headwaiter,Headwaiter
John Tyrrell	Electrician
Frank O'Connor	Cook
Eugene Anderson Jr.	Bus Boy
Sam Ash	Assistant Cook
Vin Moore	Waiter
Ralph Sanford	Truckman
Ralph Peters	Truckman
Barbara Pepper	Chorus Girl
Grace Lenard	Chorus Girl
Gwen Seager	Cover Girl Contestant
Sally Cairns	Cover Girl Contestant
Eloise Hart	Cover Girl Contestant
Diane Griffith	Cover Girl Contestant
Wesley Brent	Cover Girl Contestant,Chorus Girl
Lucille Allen	Cover Girl Contestant,Best Man
Virginia Gardner	Cover Girl Contestant
Helene Garron	Cover Girl Contestant
Muriel Morris	Cover Girl Contestant,Coudair's Secretary
Patti Sacks	Cover Girl Contestant
Billy Benedict	Florist Boy
William Sloan	Naval Officer
Grace Hayle	Woman Columnists
Fern Emmett	Woman Columnists
Rudy Wissler	Boy
Glenn Charles	Boy
Jackie Brown	Boy
Betty Brewer	Autograph Hound
Warren Ashe	Rusty's Interviewer
John Dilson	Rusty's Photographer
Jack Rice	Reporter
George Lessey	Minister
Miriam Lavelle	Specialty Dancer
Miriam Franklin	Specialty Dancer
Ronald Wyckoff	Specialty Dancer
Grace Gillern	Dancer
Eddie Cutler	Dancer
Randolph Hughes	Dancer
Jack Bernett	Dancer
George Dobbs	Dancer
Al Norman	Dancer
Larry Rio	Dancer
Jack Boyle	Dancer
Virginia Wilson	Dancer
Betty Brodel	Dancer
Johnny Mitchell	Pianist/Maribelle's Love
Patti Sheldon	Girl
Kelly Gene	Actor
Jinx Falkenberg	Actor
Ira Gershwin	Composer
Jerome Kern	Composer
Saul Chaplin	Composer
Carmen Dragon	Composer

Technical Credits

Virginia Van Upp

Erwin S. Gelsey

Marion Parsonnet

Paul Gangelin

John H. Kafka

Arthur Schwartz	Producer
Virginia Van Upp	Screenwriter
Erwin S. Gelsey	Screenwriter
Marion Parsonnet	Screenwriter
Paul Gangelin	Screenwriter
John H. Kafka	Screenwriter

Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. Start
2. "The Show Must Go On"
3. At Vanity Magazine
4. John Coudair
5. "Who's Complaining?"
6. "Sure Thing"
7. John Meets Maribelle
8. "Make Way for Tomorrow"
9. A Telegram for Rusty
10. Miss Parker Meets Mr. Coudair
11. Magic Carpet Ride
12. Liar or Heel?
13. "Put Me to the Test"
14. Noel Wheaton
15. "Long Ago and Far Away"
16. Getting Danny's Permission
17. A Picture of Rusty's Grandmother
18. "Poor John"
19. Not Upset, Delighted
20. At Wheaton Theatre
21. The Alter Ego "Dance"
22. Danny Lets Rusty Go
23. "Cover Girl"
24. At Joe's
25. Entertaining the Troops
26. A Pearl for Rusty
27. The Wedding
28. Finale

Menu

Side #1 --
Play Movie
Subtitles
English
Japanese
Chinese
Korean
Thai
Subtitles Off
Scene Selections
Trailers
Bye Bye Birdie
Gilda
Pal Joey

Editorial Reviews

Gene Kelly had been a presence in films for a couple of years, but it wasn't until MGM loaned him out to Columbia for Cover Girl that he first made his mark. Rita Hayworth is definitely (and deservedly) the star of the film, but Kelly more than holds his own with her. There's a wonderful chemistry between them, the kind of hesitant give-and-take of two people in love but who haven't yet learned to trust themselves enough to be totally honest. Hayworth looks smashing, costumed to the teeth in an array of fabulous outfits and given lavish productions for her numbers. (The title number in particular is given a stunning production.) She also acts her role very affectingly, believing in the somewhat clichéd situations, and her dancing is stupendous. Kelly, looking very boyish, sounds great and displays his first real choreographic sparks during the famous "Alter Ego" sequence. The score is first rate; the beautiful "Long Ago and Far Away" is justifiably a highlight, but there are great pleasures as well in the more obscure "The Show Must Go On," "Sure Thing" and "Make Way for Tomorrow." Phil Silvers and Eve Arden supply dependable comic relief, and Charles Vidor's direction is sure. Too slight to be a bona fide classic, Cover Girl still holds abundant delights.