Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Matylda Swan It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

christopher-underwood Its sentimental and maudlin, which I suppose is par for the course for a wartime Hollywood musical but it is also lacking decent songs. Whilst the dancing is okay it is such a shame that Rita Hayworth has so much make-up applied that she looks well beyond her 26 years. Maybe its something of the times though because Gene Kelly look way beyond his 32 years as well. In fact he looks positively unwell and although he is supposed to be sad and unhappy that things are not going his way, he really does look shattered and prompted to overact. Phil Silvers, who i thought would be embarrassing is really good, bit over the top but he convinces and Hayworth too, even in her 'cockney' song does pretty well. The costumes and the technicolor are wonderful and the 'cover girl' sequence towards the end featuring actual cover girls of the day is great. There is also an impressive routine where Hayworth comes down a big blue spiral structure in a gold dress and is caught by a group of guys. Its just that so much of this is really not very good and with a seeming out of sorts Kelly at the centre, the film has to suffer.

gkeith_1 Spoilers. Observations. Opinions. A beautiful film. Beautiful Rita. Rita was the star. Wooden Kelly, but second banana. Third banana is Phil Silvers, who was a clumsy dancer at best. Sgt. Bilko, anyone? You Baby Boomers know who you are. Rita came from a family of professional stage dancers. She was remade for film, and here she shines in her seemingly effortless dance filmography. Her family was I think Mexican and/or Spanish. Her widow's peak hairline was altered, her hair was colored red and her last name Cansino was changed to the veddy-English-aristocratic-sounding Hayworth. Kelly was not handsome here. Sorry, Gene. Furthermore, his garish green and yellow dance costume hurt my eyes to look at it. Rita's accompanying chiffon pale yellow and green gown, with matching light green dance pumps, was just delightful, however. I love song and dance musicals. You know that. Here, I am still observing and critiquing places that I feel could use improvements -- and I give kudos in other places. I still give this film a 10, however. John Coudair, old and young, was portrayed by two handsome and distinguished actors. Rita as her grandmother was charming, especially in the Pearlies segment in which the poor young thing is rejected by her fiancé's snotty aristocratic mother. This non-MGM musical did not have the polish and snap that I am used to. The use of Technicolor is a real plus, however. Oh, how I hate black and white musicals even though some of them were very good. I figured, what the hey? Columbia made big bucks from the earlier It Happened One Night, so go ahead and splurge on Cover Girl.One more thing. Sidekicks. Phil Silvers and Eve Arden have no romantic attachments. They are asides, like wallpaper. Eve even has Stonewall for a character nickname. I know it goes with the character's last name of Jackson, but this seems pretty masculine if you ask me. Well, you didn't ask. At least Eve has some beautiful costuming and fancy hats in this film. She can play pool (billiards?) with the big boys.More Baby Boomer nostalgia. Our Miss Brooks' Eve Arden played zany characters in many earlier films before her famous 1950s TV show. Was she later in Grease?Rita wears flat gold dance shoes, to match her beautiful golden gown in the scene in which she runs down the ramp to meet tons of men. Were the men all that short in height? I was thinking. Short men. Was she taller? Was this to make her height stand out? They all then crouched down, in worship of her and to salute her as she floated past them, back up the ramp.

mark.waltz What is essentially a very simple story ends up becoming a musical classic in this Columbia musical from the days of World War II that had soldiers clamoring for Rita Hayworth photos and home front movie audiences standing in line for hours to see. Even if she had never played Gilda, Hayworth would have entered screen immortality for the magnetism she possesses in this movie, in addition to the two films she had earlier starred with opposite Fred Astaire.While Rita had been seen on screen in color before ("Blood and Sand", "My Gal Sal"), Technicolor really falls in love with her in this outstanding musical. She plays a modeling hopeful who goes to the top of her profession after becoming a successful musical star, and ends up engaged to a stuffy heir (Lee Bowman) to a fortune. In denial that she's really in love with hoofer Gene Kelly, Hayworth prepares for a life of boredom while deep down inside, she's anxious to dance again down the street with him and his low-class friend (an amusing Phil Silvers) and "Make Way for Tomorrow".With Jerome Kern's former lyric writing partner Oscar Hammerstein II now busy with Richard Rodgers and Ira Gershwin's music writing brother George deceased, the two joined forces to write an original music score that has been called one of the best original song scores written for the screen. Hayworth, as usual, is dubbed, and performs an ancient musical hall song (complete with a dress covered in huge polka dots) bemoaning the fate of a heroine whose potential mother-in-law openly disapproves of her, and dances joyously with Kelly and Silvers to the optimistic "Make Way For Tomorrow", then flings herself down a curvy run-way to the magnificent "Long Ago and Far Away". Kelly gets some neat special effects, dancing with a transparent version of himself, in "Alter Ego Dance".Another highlight is the fashion show "Cover Girl" number which resembles "Easter Parade's" "The Girl I Love is on a Magazine Cover" and "Beautiful Girls" from "Singin' in the Rain" featuring live girls either on calendars or magazine covers. In fantastic support are Eve Arden as the sardonic magazine executive secretary who becomes Rita's confidante, Leslie Brooks as Rita's chorus girl chum, and Otto Kruger as a father figure in Rita's life. In short, this is a movie about Rita, aka Rusty, aka Maribelle. There's also a delightful cameo by Jack Norton, the tea-totaler actor who plays a drunk delightfully joining in Gene, Phil and Rita's big number together.This is a musical and visual delight from start to finish, probably Columbia's most popular film of the 1940's along with "The Jolson Story" and one of the factors that moved the studio from the "B's" to the "A's".

preppy-3 Singer/dancer "Rusty" Park (Rita Hayworth) performs at Danny McGuires and is romanced by the owner--Danny (Gene Kelly). She is spotted by a magazine agency and they hire her to become their new cover girl. She becomes an overnight sensation and is happy...but all this fame threatens her romance with Danny.The story is sappy but you don't watch this for the plot! You watch to see Hayworth, Kelly and a young Phil Silvers singing and dancing and there's a LOT of that. The numbers are in bright beautiful Technicolor, Hayworth is incredibly beautiful and the dancing is astonishing. We also have Eve Arden in a small role providing some comic relief. This also has some pleasant if forgettable songs except for the haunting "Long Ago and Far Away" (Oscar-nominated). Also there's the "Alter Ego" dance where Kelly dances with himself! However this isn't perfect. The totally predictable story drags this down a little, it's a bit too long and a little of Silvers comedy goes a long way but it's still well worth watching.Just be careful if you see it on commercial TV. I saw it originally back in the early 1970s on TV...and it was in b&w!