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One of the most lavish and successful Hollywood musicals of the 1940’s, Charles Vidor’s Cover Girl is a breath-taking spectacle that established its stars Rita Hayworth (Gilda, The Lady from Shanghai) and Gene Kelly (Singin’ in the Rain), as the two most popular actors of their time.Nightclub dancer Rusty (Hayworth) has a happy life performing at her boyfriend Danny’s (Kelly) club in Brooklyn, but her whole world changes once she wins a prestigious Cover Girl contest arranged by a wealthy magazine editor (Otto Kruger). Rusty soon becomes a Broadway sensation, but is fame and fortune a substitute for true love?Also starring the legendary Sergeant Bilko himself, Phil Silvers (The Phil Silvers Show, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World) and the recipient of 5 Academy Award nominations (winning for best musical scoring), Cover Girl was Columbia studio’s first Technicolor musical, and remains one of the finest musical pictures of all time. The Masters of Cinema series is proud to present the film for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK in a stunning Dual-format edition.
Original Release
03/22/1944
US Release
03/22/1944
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Rita Hayworth | Maribelle Hicks / Rusty Parker / Maribelle Hicks (flashback sequence) |
Gene Kelly | Danny McGuire |
Lee Bowman | Noel Wheaton |
Phil Silvers | Genius |
Jinx Falkenburg | Jinx Falkenburg / Herself |
Leslie Brooks | Maurine Martin / Maurine, Rusty's blonde friend / rival |
Eve Arden | Cornelia Jackson / Cornelia 'Stonewall' Jackson |
Otto Kruger | John Coudair |
Jess Barker | John Coudair as a Young Man / Coudair as a young man |
Anita Colby | Miss Colby |
Directors
Writers
Virginia Van Upp, Marion Parsonnet, Paul Gangelin, Erwin Gelsey, John H. Kafka
Cast
Name | Character |
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Rita Hayworth | Maribelle Hicks / Rusty Parker / Maribelle Hicks (flashback sequence) |
Gene Kelly | Danny McGuire |
Lee Bowman | Noel Wheaton |
Phil Silvers | Genius |
Jinx Falkenburg | Jinx Falkenburg / Herself |
Leslie Brooks | Maurine Martin / Maurine, Rusty's blonde friend / rival |
Eve Arden | Cornelia Jackson / Cornelia 'Stonewall' Jackson |
Otto Kruger | John Coudair |
Jess Barker | John Coudair as a Young Man / Coudair as a young man |
Anita Colby | Miss Colby |
Curt Bois | Chef at Danny McGuire's |
Jean Colleran | Cover Girl: American Magazine |
Francine Counihan | Cover Girl: American Home |
Helen Mueller | Cover Girl: Collier's Magazine |
Cecilia Meagher | Cover Girl: Coronet |
Betty Jane Hess | Cover Girl: Cosmopolitan Magazine / Cover Girl: Cosmopolitan |
Dusty Anderson | Cover Girl: Farm Journal Magazine / Cover Girl: Farm Journal |
Eileen McClory | Cover Girl: Glamour Magazine / Cover Girl: Glamour |
Cornelia B. von Hessert | Cover Girl: Harper's Bazaar Magazine / Cover Girl: Harper's Bazaar |
Karen X. Gaylord | Cover Girl: Liberty Magazine / Cover Girl: Liberty |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Arthur Schwartz | Producer |
Editors
Trailers
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1945 | Oscar | Best Cinematography, Color | Nominated |
1945 | Oscar | Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color | Nominated |
1945 | Oscar | Best Sound, Recording | Nominated |
1945 | Oscar | Best Music, Original Song | Nominated |
1945 | Oscar | Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture | Won |