Cover Girl | Gene Kelly's Alter Ego Dance | ClineClips

Danny struggles with his thoughts.
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Rusty Parker, a red-headed leggy dancer at Danny McGuire's Night Club in Brooklyn, wants to be a successful Broadway star. She enters a contest to be a 'Cover Girl' as a stepping-stone in her career. She reminds the publisher, John Coudair, of his lost love, showgirl Maribelle Hicks. He was engaged to Maribelle, although his wealthy society mother made fun of her. Maribelle left John at the altar when she saw the piano at her wedding. It reminded her of the piano-player she truly loved. Rusty is Maribelle's granddaughter and there are lovely musical sequences where the radiant Rita Hayworth dresses and dances to songs from the beginning of the 20th century in relating their shared past history. Rusty lands on the cover of her grandmother's former fiancé's magazine (as a bride). She is pursued by Coudair's pal, the wealthy theatrical producer, Noel Wheaton (Lee Bowman). He produces a lavish musical to star Rusty, surrounded by real cover girls of the mid 1940's. Rita's glowing, never more gorgeous as she runs down a huge spiral into the arms of dozens of men who seem clumsy next to her ethereal dancing. But her success threatens Danny McGuire, played by an energetic Gene Kelly. He expressed his distress that his girlfriend will find success without him in Kelly's famous dance with himself, 'Alter Ego'. He and his sidekick, the underrated Phil Silvers (who has great lines with the incomparable Eve Arden), leave New York and entertain soldiers fighting in World War II. Rusty agrees to marry Noel, dazzled by success, security, and his power and money. But she drinks and loses weight because her heart belongs to Danny. She receives a symbolic pearl with great power and tells Coudair and Wheaton that she must spend her life with the man she loves.
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Cover Girl | Gene Kelly's Alter Ego Dance | ClineClips
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[@susanlloyd7395]

Kelly was a ground breaking innovator.

[@kevinbrouelette6361]

Just saw this on over the air tv. Wow! So effortless and precise. Well done Gene.

[@EthalaRide]

How... how the heck were they able to track that _MOVEMENT_ like that back then? It's so insanely inovative and the EDITING, it's so dang near perfect with only like 3 shots that are a little floaty, and the floatiness _works_ for some of them, like when the images jumps back into the mirror at the end.

[@coloraturaElise]

Watching this number, you just have to wonder how this critic could be so clueless--from Wikipedia: "He [Kelly] created a memorable routine dancing to his own reflection. Despite this, critic Manny Farber was moved to praise Kelly's "attitude", "clarity", and "feeling" as an actor while inauspiciously concluding, "The two things he does least well-singing and dancing-are what he is given most consistently to do."[22]

[@403CLT]

I'd argue the critic was clueless AND stupid