“Rita Hayworth is definitely (and deservedly) the star of the film, but Kelly more than holds his own with her. There’s a wonderful chemistry between them […]. Hayworth looks smashing, costumed to the teeth in an array of fabulous outfits […]. She also acts her role very affectingly […] and her dancing is stupendous. Kelly, looking very boyish, sounds great and displays his first real choreographic sparks during the famous Alter Ego sequence. The score is first rate; the beautiful Long Ago and Far Away is justifiably a highlight […]. Phil Silvers and Eve Arden supply dependable comic relief, and Charles Vidor’s direction is sure.” Craig Butler: Cover Girl bei AllMovie (englisch)
“The picture […] is the best cinemusical the year has produced, and one of the best in years. Not even Cover Girl’s story – the one really conventional thing about it – gets in its way. […] Miss Hayworth’s and Mr. Kelly’s […] dance duets are the best since Astaire and Rogers split. […] Besides dancing better than ever before, Rita Hayworth looks more than ever like a model in brisk flight from Titian.” Vgl. The New Pictures. In: Time, 10. April 1944.
variety.com
“Fine and consistently-paced direction by Charles Vidor […]. Dance sequences […] are expertly staged. […] Score by Jerome Kern and Ira Gershwin […] is of high caliber.” Vgl. Cover Girl. In: Variety, 8. März 1944.
