Gene kelly, to live and dance, by bertrand tessier. Its a little like the number the girl on a magazine cover in easter parade with its fetishization of cover girls and play with huge magazines. Rita hayworth the show must go on from cover girl youtube. Rita hayworth and gene kelly star in the 1944 musical comedy cover girl, released on dvd from columbia tristar. See the full list of cover girl cast and crew including actors, directors, producers and more. Cindy shermans groundbreaking images that capture the. Rita hayworth in gilda first appearance in the movie complete scene duration. Thanks to its jerome kernira gershwinyip harburg score and the luminescence of stars rita hayworth and gene kelly, cover girl has taken on a legendary status in recent years.
Cover girl 1944 is a fashion comedy, music movie starring rita hayworth and gene kelly. Courtesy of the artist and metro pictures, new york. There could be no better time for eureka video to grant cover girl 1944 entry into their masters of cinema series. Columbia gave kelly almost complete control over the making of this film, and many of his ideas contributed to its lasting success. Rita hayworth plays two characters and the title role in this musical comedy which won an academy award for best musical score. With cover girl 1944 he was the first to allow gene kelly to choreograph his own imaginative dance numbers. Sony pictures entertainment has completed an allnew 4k restoration of cover girl, director charles vidors 1944 technicolor musical that starred rita hayworth and gene kelly. Cover girl is a musical film made in 1944, directed by charles vidor and starring rita hayworth, gene kelly and a young phil silvers. Driven by ambition, she enters a cover girl contest. Magical carpet cover girl 44 rita hayworth hd youtube. The lavish technicolor extravaganza cover girl 1944 is a landmark in hollywood musical history.
Beautiful newcomer cheryl hanson, and a host of your favorite cover girls and centerspreads from the steaming pages of the world hottest magazines, expose their erotic talents in the sizzling adult extravaganza. Youll go behind the scenes and be a part of the incredibly sensual world of sex, as we show you just how stimulating and arousing it really is to prove the intimate sensuality of a. Cover girl has taken on a legendary status in recent years. Cover girl 1944 1944 charles vidor on allmovie gene kelly had been a presence in films for a. She reminds the publisher, john coudair, of his lost love, showgirl maribelle hicks. A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her. Kelly made his film debut in 1942 in me and my gal, which costarred judy garland. Cover girl 1944 the finale with rita hayworth is one of her best dance sequences on film, but what is truly remarkable about this film is gene kellys alter ego, where he dances with a projection of himself. Kellys movie career truly took off after his groundbreaking alter ego performance in columbia pictures cover girl 1944, in which he performed with himself thanks to the double exposure of the film. Unavoidable campy at points, cover girl is nonetheless a wonderfully charming slice of wwiiera americana, with surprisingly robust characters and a lovely color palette. Cover girl by charles vidor charles vidor, rita hayworth. In director charles vidors use of vivid primary colours, you can see a template for the great musicals. With frances langford, edward norris, iris adrian, craig woods.
Live virtually casa romantica cultural center and gardens. Then it stopped while everyone tried to figure out just how to film the solo that. The internet adult film database is an online searchable database of over 490,038 adult movies titles and 200,604 porn performers. She receives a symbolic pearl with great power and tells coudair and wheaton that she must spend her life with the man she loves. He achieved a significant breakthrough as a dancer on film when mgm lent him to columbia to work with rita hayworth in cover girl 1944, a film that foreshadowed the. Released 1944, cover girl stars rita hayworth, gene kelly, eve arden, lee bowman the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 47 min, and received a score of out of 100 on metacritic, which assembled. Cover girl is pleasant and likeable enough, but in comparison to the other great movie musicals of the time it just feels dated, even forgettable. But cover girl is a wilier, more inventive and daring film, a true original. I had long been a fan of gene kelly and rita hayworth. This one features reallife cover girls who would have been recognizable to moviegoers in 1944. The restoration, completed under the supervision of sonys grover crisp, premiered at new yorks museum of modern art in new york during preserve and project, its th international festival of film preservation. Until i found this movie i never knew that they had made a film together. Then the stars were in alignment, and the movie began, though costumes were still a problem.
Covergirl 1944 meet the girl on the cover duration. I remember being excited when i first discovered the movie cover girl. Looking for something different, they finally decided upon. Cover girl on dvd 043396100879 from sony pictures home entertainment. The cinematography was way ahead of its time, and the scene is still incredible to watch. Cast and crew credits for cover girl, 1944, directed by charles vidor, with rita hayworth, gene kelly, lee bowman, at turner classic movies.
She enters a contest to be a cover girl as a steppingstone in her career. Nothing special at all, though a decent amount of charm, lush technicolour photography, and some clever choreography save it from mediocrity. The third picture he completed was a coproduction between mgm and himself, a cheapie b. John coudair otto kruger was wounded long ago when his. Cover girl, dvd, full frame, subtitled, musicals theatrical, 043396100879. Culver city, californiadecember 9, 2015 sony pictures entertainment recently completed an allnew 4k restoration of cover girl, director charles vidors 1944 technicolor musical that marked one of the first starring roles for rita hayworth. The show includes all five of shermans cover girl series, completed shortly after she graduated from art school, displayed together for the first time since november 1976 when they were exhibited on the inside of the top deck of a bus. Rusty parker wins a contest and becomes a celebrated cover girl. The song is performed by seven lovely chorus girls and the. Fleshy technicolor opening with a song by jerome kern and ira gershwin, featuring star rita hayworth and supporting player leslie brooks, from cover girl, 1944, also starring gene kelly view the tcmdb entry for cover girl 1944. Subtitles are available in english, chinese, japanese, korean, and thai. The big show cover girl 44 rita hayworth hd youtube. Thanks to its jerome kernira gershwinyip harburg score and the luminescence of stars rita hayworth and gene kelly, cover girl.
Rita hayworth was, at the time, american gis favorite pinup, or at least a close second to betty grable. Staring rita hayworth, gene kelly, phil silvers and lee bowman. Cover girl is a 1944 american technicolor comedy musical film starring rita hayworth and. Especially in one wonderful shot of studioshot fantasy cover girl hints at the film it could be.
And gene kelly has a danceoff with a hallucination of himself, which is worth the price of admission alone. The opening minutes of cover girl 1944, with ritas famous intro in the show must go on production number. The most brilliant musical of our time rusty parker, a redheaded leggy dancer at danny mcguires night club in brooklyn, wants to be a successful broadway star. With rita hayworth, gene kelly, lee bowman, phil silvers. In truth, the film has a banal and predictable premise. Rusty parker, a redheaded leggy dancer at danny mcguires night club in brooklyn, wants to be a successful broadway star. Its mosttalkedabout moment, with good reason, comes when danny, despondent that rusty has abandoned him one evening, sees himself in the reflection of a shop window and allows the mirror image to personify all his doubts and frustrations. 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.
Sony gives rita hayworth, gene kelly a 4k makeover in. Joan terry, a girl from the country wants to become a broadway star, but this proves to be not so easy. A nonmgm musical which was hugely successful at the box office, the movie features songs by jerome kern and ira gershwin and was one of. Rita hayworth and gene kelly in cover girl 1944 rita hayworth in cover girl. They walk into frame, a life size image poses with a closeup, and then they point to their cover.
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