in brooklyn and the nightclub dancer rusty parker ( rita hayworth ) have a simple but happy life dancing in the mcguire and own by her boyfriend danny ( gene kelly ) . rusty and danny and genius ( phil silver ) have a ritual on friday night represent they order oyster in a bar and try to find a pearl . the life of rusty change when she participate and win a contest to be the cover page of the vanity magazine . she be invite to work in a huge theater in broadway and whose owner propose her . she lose her happiness and start drinking in her new life style and miss the love of danny and her old friend . cover girl be a delightful romantic comedy and very naive and have magnificent part and such a the beauty and talented rita hayworth dancing and singing and act while gene kelly and specially in two scene and dance with himself and with rusty and genius on the street while the song and the choreography of the dance be also spectacular . danny and the character of gene kelly and be almost nasty with his chauvinist behavior . rita hayworth surprise me with her talent represent i find her amazing in gilda and but she be stun in cover girl . in accordance with the information on the cover of the vhs and cover girl be the first musical where the song be part of the plot and give continuity to the story and instead of just be throw in the movie . my sixteen year old son saw this movie with a friend of the same age in a recent gene kelly festival and they love cover girl and therefore i dare to say that this classic be recommend to any movie lover and not only to the old generation . my vote be nine . title ( brazil ) represent modelos ( model ) .