Rita Hayworth in "Cover Girl" Title Dance Number

My favorite Rita Hayworth solo, from "Cover Girl" 1944 (staged by choreographer Jack Cole), with a follow-up scene w/ Rita and Lee Bowman.

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Film & Animation

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• Rita
• Hayworth
• Dance
• Musicals
• Cover
• Girl

[oentschi]

FINALLY - this is after "Gilda" Ritas´s best dancing number EVER - watch all the more or less dated beauties until SHE arrives at the end on the top of the hill:

THE ONE AND ONLY GODDESS OF BEAUTY AND

DANCE - talented, gorgeous, golden Rita Hayworth !!!! My favorite Hayworth-number !!!

[marcco44]

AMEN,AMEN!! when you say 'rita hayworth' THIS is the image i see in my mind's eye... the clouds, the stardust, the JOY expressed in rita's effortless dancing...all of it, just luscious!!!!

[adelinomalveiro]

I saw this movie recently and know that some of these models became very famous. I find some of them breathtaking beauties even by today's standards but others look dated and awckward. I like particularly the one at 01:08 (the extremely beautiful Susann Shaw who posed as a bride for Vogue more than 1000 times), the homely pretty brunette at 01:37, Peggy Lloyd at 01:48 (Life's cover in 1943) and also the stunning looking Dusty Anderson at 02:50 who married hollywood director Jean Negulesco.

[mca1218]

I'm glad someone has posted this gorgeous number...great FX, which pay tribute to photography (the double-images of all the cover girls in the camera lens, and so forth). And some of those models are it: the 'Redbook' blonde, the 'American Home' brunette, and especially the 'Farm Journal' lady with the almost black hair (someone else mentioned her too- a stunner)...but then, there's Rita- of the auburn mane in a gold dress running down an endless runway with hundreds of admirers....Mahvelous!!

[zefrenchgirl]

@ugha323a God bless you.

[zefrenchgirl]

@ugha323a He loved me as much as I loved him.I cry when I listen to some of our favorite tunes.I miss him so much! He was gay, but he asked me to marry him,how sweet.I met Bobby on Youtube 2 years ago. Before he died from mouth cancer,I made him a promise to never ever meet someone else on Youtube. I will keep my promise because my love for him has no limit.He was the man I looked for all my life.I hope you will understand that this is my last note to you,even if I feel we could be good friends.

[ugha323a]

@zefrenchgirl

I am glad your friend did that for you, he must have loved you.

I am in show biz, so you can imagine many men, (gay) that always help me look good when I perform on bigger stages.

God Bless you.

And, yes, women back then loved their prettiness, sensuality, feminine mystique :D

[zefrenchgirl]

@ugha323a A dear friend died of cancer last December and he taught me a lot about this era.He asked me to let my hair grow in order to look more feminine. I did and people say that I look great with longer hair.Bobby, my friend was gay but he was my soul mate.He was a GREAT man. Women back then knew how to dress themselves and many of them had stronger moral value then some women now.

[ugha323a]

@zefrenchgirl

I agree. Women then compared to now--NO comparison. The women back then looked GORGEOUS

[LadyTwentySeven]

I want Rita's dress at 3:40 too!!!

[LadyTwentySeven]

RH was a woman ahead of her time.

[stylestar07]

This is my favorite scene from this movie.. I remember watching it everytime it would air on TCM just to see this scene..The fashion show from the orginal "the women" is also very cool.. I love seeing classic styles as portrayed from their era.

[BusbyRocks1]

The hottest model? Dusty Anderson (Farm Journal), IMHO.

[13beautifuleyes]

My names Rita. :)