Magazines in the movies – Cover Girl 2

In Cover Girl Killer, pin-up models from Wow! magazine are bumped off

A recent post about the Cover Girl movie featured a musical from 1944. But there have been several films about cover girls.

The first was Cover Girl Killer from 1959. The plot was neatly summed up by a publicity poster: ‘First you’re a COVER GIRL … then you’re a CORPSE!’

In this British film, a pin-up model from the fictional Wow! magazine is found dead and is soon followed by others. The police twig that in each case the bikini-clad corpse is arranged in a similar position to her pose for the magazine. There’s a clever serial killer on the loose!

Harry H. Corbett has a starring role as ‘The Man’ with a very strange hair cut and bottle-bottom glasses. This was three years before playing Harold in the long-running TV series Steptoe and Son. Felicity Young plays June, the next model in peril.

Not a good look for Harry H Corbett

Wow was an American pin-up magazine in the 1950s

Although Wow! magazine did not exist in Britain, there was a US title around the time called Wow, which featured bikini-clad women on its covers, though they were illustrations. Since then, several publishers have used the title. They include WOW, an IPC comic from 1982 and, in 1999, WOW – World of Wrestling – launched. In 2019 there was The WOW, a women’s lifestyle and fashion magazine that featured Asian women. Finally, 100% WOW is a comic for teenage girls.

As for other cover girls on the big screen, Cheryl Hansson: Cover Girl came out in 1981 and That Cover Girl is a Malaysian TV series broadcast since 2023.

>>Film and TV magazines at Magforum
>>Cover Girl Killer at IMDB

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