Word: hayworth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cover Girl (Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly; TIME, April...
Cover Girl (Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly; TIME, April...
Cover Girl (Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly; TIME, April...
Besides dancing better than ever before, Rita Hayworth looks more than ever like a model in brisk flight from Titian, and shows marked symptoms of acting. Even better is Gene Kelly. Few cinemactors can match his reticence, exact evocativeness and sincerity, or carry such acting abilities into dancing and singing (notably in Cover Girl, Put Me To The Test...
...Miss Hayworth's and Mr. Kelly's amatory ups-&-downs have a warmth and poignancy which is unprecedented in a cinemusical. When they cue into a song-especially the sentimental bull's-eye Long Ago-they do not step out of character for the number. Their dance duets are the best since Astaire and Rogers split. Scene after scene, even the troublesome Manhattanites in their splendid lairs, have a remarkable authenticity of emotion, place, atmosphere and character. So do most of the sets, costumes, dance routines, Jerome Kern tunes and Ira Gershwin lyrics...