Girl on the magazine cover

The « Beautiful Girl » number in « Singing in the Rain » was also in the same vein.

In his classic 1941 novel of how things worked in Hollywood during the "studio system,"- "What Makes Sammy Run," - author Budd Shulberg wrote of many such "rip-offs" and many others on a much grander scale as being ordinary practices by Hollywood Producers, Executives, and Studios. The book was the basis of a 1959 TV drama and a successful 1964 Broadway musical, but in both, the story was watered down from its original true grit. Steven Speilberg paid millions to hold the movie rights to the book, but declared its story should never be told fully to the public because it indicts the inside practices of Hollywood.

We live in a recycled world; there is nothing new under the sun. If you did some research, bet you could find out who used this concept in a movie before "Cover Girl" "ripped" them off.