Cover Girl
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- choreography by Donen
- In Stanley Donen: Early life and work
…he choreographed such musicals as Cover Girl (1944), Anchors Aweigh (1945), and Living in a Big Way (1947), most of them alongside Kelly. Moreover, he received a story credit for renowned choreographer Busby Berkeley’s Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949), which he also choreographed.
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- In Stanley Donen: Early life and work
- cinematography by Maté
- In Rudolph Maté
Yankees (1942), Sahara (1943), and Cover Girl (1944). His other notable credits included Dodsworth (1936), Stella Dallas (1937), Love Affair (1939), My Favorite Wife (1940), and Gilda (1946).
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- In Rudolph Maté
- contribution by Boetticher
- In Budd Boetticher: Early life and work
…More the Merrier (1943), and Cover Girl (1944). That earned him a chance to helm B-films on his own, and his first solo-directing credit was One Mysterious Night (1944), an installment in the Boston Blackie mystery series. Boetticher made four more films before being drafted in 1946; he spent the…
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- In Budd Boetticher: Early life and work
- discussed in biography
- In Charles Vidor: Rita Hayworth: Cover Girl and Gilda
…next assignment was the prestigious Cover Girl (1944), an elaborate Hayworth–Gene Kelly musical with songs by Jerome Kern and Ira Gershwin. The film was a major box-office success and established Vidor as a bankable director. He then made Together Again (1944), a popular romantic comedy starring Charles Boyer and
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- In Charles Vidor: Rita Hayworth: Cover Girl and Gilda
- Oscar to Dragon and Stoloff for best scoring of a musical picture, 1944
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- Hayworth
- In Rita Hayworth
…and with Gene Kelly in Cover Girl (1944), a film that helped establish both Hayworth and Kelly among the top stars of the day. It was also during this time that she became a favourite pinup of American servicemen; her publicity still, depicting the lingerie-clad Hayworth kneeling seductively on a…
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- In Rita Hayworth
- Kelly
- In Gene Kelly: Films of the 1940s: Cover Girl, Anchors Aweigh, The Pirate, and On the Town
Kelly made his film debut opposite Judy Garland in For Me and My Gal (1942), immediately endearing himself to moviegoers with his carefree acting and spontaneous athletic dancing style. It was not until he was loaned…
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- In Gene Kelly: Films of the 1940s: Cover Girl, Anchors Aweigh, The Pirate, and On the Town