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Cover Girl is a 1944 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Charles Vidor, and starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly. 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 .
After winning the contest, [8] the studio paid for her trip in August 1944, and she was given a screen test for the Rita Hayworth film Tonight and Every Night, as her contest award. [ 9 ] Winning the "National Cinderella Cover Girl Contest" brought with it a contract for Hart to be a model with the Conover Modeling Agency , which in turn led to ...
Pin-up photo of Anderson for Yank, the Army Weekly in 1943. Anderson was born in Toledo, Ohio, United States.She began her career as a model and made her film debut in a minor role as one of the cover girls in the 1944 Columbia Pictures production of Cover Girl starring Rita Hayworth.
Nine Girls (1944) as Roberta Holloway; Cover Girl (1944) as Maurine Martin; Tonight and Every Night (1945) as Angela; I Love a Bandleader (1945) as Ann Stuart; The Secret of the Whistler (1946) as Kay Morrell; The Man Who Dared (1946) as Lorna Claibourne; Cigarette Girl (1947) as Ellen Wilcox; Romance on the High Seas (1948) as Miss Medwick
Charles John Vidor (born Károly John Vidor; July 27, 1899 – June 4, 1959) [1] was a Hungarian film director.Among his film successes are The Bridge (1929), Double Door (1934), The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942), The Desperadoes (1943), Cover Girl (1944), Together Again (1944), A Song to Remember (1945), Over 21 (1945), Gilda (1946), The Loves of Carmen (1948), Rhapsody (1954), Love Me or Leave Me ...
The lack of leading men in World War II was a boost to Bowman's career and he co-starred with Rita Hayworth in Cover Girl and Jean Arthur in The Impatient Years. According to a film writer at the time, "his Hollywood career has not been spectacular but has gained him a large following." [3] He was signed by Columbia Pictures.
Mary Kathleen O'Malley (March 31, 1924 – February 25, 2019) was an American film and television actress, who was the daughter of vaudevillian and actor Pat O'Malley. Her screen debut came during the silent film era as a thirteen month old baby in 1926, when she appeared alongside her father and her sister Sheila in the western My Old Dutch.
Virginia Van Upp (right) with Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford on the set of Gilda (1946), which she co-wrote and produced. Ever on the lookout for talent, and after several writers failed to create a satisfying screenplay of Cover Girl (1944), Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures hired Van Upp from Paramount to rewrite the script.