CGC Vintage Classics

Happy Valentine’s Day to all classic cinema lovers and happy 70th anniversary to the premiere in 1946 of Gilda, one of the best and most iconic movies ever made. To commemorate this film, I have created the design above which will soon be available at my online store. For...

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 February's movie recommendation is Only Angels Have Wings, directed by Howard Hawks in 1939. A thrilling and gritty action film based on a story written by Hawks and involving the lives of a group of air-mail pilots located in the fictional South American town of Barranca. A stellar cast transcends the screen with outstanding performances, such as those from Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, Noah Beery or Sig Ruman.

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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