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7 months, 3 days, 4 hours, 23 minutes... It was Tuesday. - Rusty Parker (Rita Hayworth)
I absolutely love this introduction to one of my favorite songs in a classic musical: Long Ago and Far Away by Jerome Kern and Ira Gershwin, from Cover Girl (1944).
This December I'd like to recommend the viewing of this absolute musical gem. Cover Girl (1944) was a movie produced by Columbia Pictures, to which Gene Kelly was loaned by MGM. At the time, he was still not popular enough for MGM to let him have full control in choreographing the films he appeared in. This was not the case of Cover Girl, for which –for the first time–, he was allowed to create the whole choreography of the movie. Alongside Stanley Donen, not only he excelled in conceiving the most innovative musical number of all time, but he also radiated romance, passion, appeal and talent.
This is one of my favorite musicals and one of the reasons I'm still in love with this gorgeous artist known as Gene Kelly. I hope you enjoy watching it again or for the first time and be sure to take a look at my blog. Promise make it in English for 2014!
May Gene be with us.
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