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Cover Girl

Cover Girl

Music · Comedy · Romance · 1944

A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

Movie details

Cover Girl

“THE MOST BRILLIANT MUSICAL OF OUR TIME!”

1944 Music · Comedy · Romance 1h 47m

Critical arithmetic

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TMDB

6.4 / 10

Community rating

A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

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What this film says about your taste.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Charles Vidor

Written by

Erwin S. Gelsey · Virginia Van Upp

Rita Hayworth

Rita Hayworth

Rusty Parker / Maribelle Hicks (flashback)

Gene Kelly

Gene Kelly

Danny McGuire

Lee Bowman

Lee Bowman

Noel Wheaton

Phil Silvers

Phil Silvers

Genius

Jinx Falkenburg

Jinx Falkenburg

Jinx Falkenburg

Leslie Brooks

Leslie Brooks

Maurine Martin

Eve Arden

Eve Arden

Cornelia 'Stonewall' Jackson

Court is in session

Put Cover Girl on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.