No tribute to Columbia would be complete without this stylish, witty, extravagant musical which helped to revive the genre in the mid-forties. “Cover Girl...combined two elements: a light-hearted examination of the world of fashion, dealt with in a vein of purest fantasy--the heroine, Rusty Parker (Rita Hayworth) is translated from Brooklyn singer to cover girl for the Golden Wedding issue of Vanity Magazine--and an evocation of backstage life, observed with equal non-realism. It was ideal escapist fare for G.I.s and those at home.... The best numbers rise above the rest: in ‘Make Way for Tomorrow', written, like the rest of the excellent score, by Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern, the stars--Hayworth, Gene Kelly and Phil Silvers--dance in a burst of optimistic exuberance out of a restaurant and down a street, using dustbins, a milkman and a drunk as part of the routine, prancing up and down steps; the number was nicely designed by Kelly himself.... Kelly's dance with his Doppelganger through the Brooklyn streets at 3 a.m., the figure arguing with him from shop windows, finally dancing down to join him in a duet, is justly famous.” Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg, Hollywood in the Forties