Genevieve is a 1953 British comedy film produced and directed by Henry Cornelius and written by William Rose. It starred John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan, Kenneth More and Kay Kendall as two couples comedically involved in a veteran automobile rally. The musical score was composed and performed by Larry Adler with dance numbers by Eric Rogers.
The story revolves around two Veteran cars and their crews participating in the annual London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. Alan McKim (John Gregson), a young barrister and his wife Wendy (Dinah Sheridan), drive Genevieve, a 1904 Darracq. Their friend Ambrose Claverhouse (Kenneth More), a brash advertising salesman, his latest girlfriend, fashion model Rosalind Peters (Kay Kendall) and her pet St. Bernard ride in a 1904 Spyker.
The journey to Brighton goes well for Claverhouse, but the McKims' trip is complicated by several breakdowns, and they arrive very late. As Alan cancelled their accommodation in their usual plush hotel during a fit of pique, they are forced to spend the night in a dingy run-down hotel (with a noteworthy cameo performance by Joyce Grenfell as the proprietress) leaving Wendy feeling less than pleased.
GENEVIEVE (1953) Racing through the streets of London (The End)
Darracq vintage car 1904 as featured in "Genevieve" Movie Profile Prints
Genevieve: Arriving in Brighton.
Kenneth More (1914-1982)
The delightful Joyce Grenfell (Genevieve extract 1953)
Geneviève de Galard (1953-1954) Guerre d'Indochine
Darracq Vintage car Genevieve Profile Print art
Genevieve Teaser Trailer
Percy Faith - Genevieve (vocal: Burt Taylor) (from the British film "Genevieve")
Montagne St.Geneviève (Django's Waltz) Django Reinhardt - Djangolizer Playback Demo
Genevieve Waltz. Larry Adler -78 rpm-
Geneviève Mauffette Le Traversier
Genevieve Love theme and blues Larry Adler -78 rpm-
Picasso's Lovers: Women / Femmes / Mujeres - Slide Show
Plot
Keywords: mockumentary
Genevieve by Symetry will change your life... for the better!
GENEVIEVE (1953) Racing through the streets of London (The End)
Darracq vintage car 1904 as featured in "Genevieve" Movie Profile Prints
Genevieve: Arriving in Brighton.
Kenneth More (1914-1982)
The delightful Joyce Grenfell (Genevieve extract 1953)
Geneviève de Galard (1953-1954) Guerre d'Indochine
Darracq Vintage car Genevieve Profile Print art
Genevieve Teaser Trailer
Percy Faith - Genevieve (vocal: Burt Taylor) (from the British film "Genevieve")
Montagne St.Geneviève (Django's Waltz) Django Reinhardt - Djangolizer Playback Demo
Genevieve Waltz. Larry Adler -78 rpm-
Geneviève Mauffette Le Traversier
Genevieve Love theme and blues Larry Adler -78 rpm-
Picasso's Lovers: Women / Femmes / Mujeres - Slide Show
Harmonica virtuoso Larry Adler plays St Louis Blues - 1937
Foreign Intrigue (1956) Mystery, Romance, Robert Mitchum, Geneviève Page, Ingrid Thulin
Genevieve - For You - Audiotree Live
Motoring With Robbie.- 5 mins of an old Radio show from New Zealand.
My 1925 Ford Model T - The Story of my Model T
What's My Line? - Genevieve; Art Linkletter [panel]; Betty White [panel] (Mar 5, 1961)
My 1925 Ford Model T - Channel Trailer
Genevieve - No more
HP Photo Wall Décor Makeover with Genevieve Gorder
She reaches for her latest reading
Her pillow's folded
Her mind is reeling round
She can't remember
What made this different
Before her clock was
Fifteen minutes fast
(chorus)
When the morning came
It was just the same
Genevieve
Like a loaded gun
Like a letter bomb
Genevieve
She reaches for her latest feeling
She can't control it
Her heart is beating
She made her mind up
It's off to sleep now
To dream about the book she just put down
Genevieve,
Listen for a while.
We are young,
Waking all the time.
Growing as we do,
See the truth we lose,
How we soon forget
This love.
Genevieve,
Tell me if you can.
Who is right,
A woman or a man ?
How we grow the same. (to see who doesn't cry) [??? (see the dancing love) ???]
Together we create. (the circles round my heart )
Sing, all the world is in (a girl for every boy)
Our eyes. (Genevive)
Genevieve. (Genevive)
Flying to the sky, (flying to the sky)
Holding me this way, (gliding through the sky)
This magic that I feel (magic that is in your eyes)
For you.
Genevieve,
The strongest love of all
Is when we're one
Whenever we're alone.
There's nothing like our love (everybody knows)
That fills this empty space. (the children of the world)
Just let me hear you say (everyday begins love)
It's true.
The way you think of love (show how to believe)
Is in my heart of love. (in this make believe)
This love for everyone, (make each day begin with love)
Genevieve. (love love love....)
Everybody knows.
For the children of the world.
Every day begins
Genevieve, genevieve.....
I went down to some backroom joint
Where I spent the night before,
Looking for the girl I love -
She left and wrote her name on my door.
She's got a guilty conscience of her own -
I've got to find out why she keeps running on,
Why she keeps running on.
Nobody gonna steal that woman, nobody for sure.
Genevieve, I got to find you, woman, tonight.
Deep in shadows of a neon-lit street
You know she gave me the slip.
I would love her every day,
But she's quicksilver in my grip.
Little darlin', you move too fast -
You're here one minute, and you're gone in a flash,
Gone in a flash.
Nobody gonna steal that woman, nobody for sure.
I got to find you,
Genevieve, I'm gonna find you tonight.
Genevieve, why did you leave?
Genevieve, why did you leave?
Don't you feel guilty, loving two men?
Well, I'm the one to stand by your side.
Oh, baby, yes I love you so,
But do you listen to his lies?
Make up your mind, who's your loving for?
You're in the middle of a battle with the man at war,
Man at war.
Nobody gonna steal that woman, nobody for sure.
Genevieve, I got to find you, woman, tonight.
Genevieve, I'm gonna find you tonight. (repeat)
Genevieve.
[Verse:]
Here we go again it's another day paid
I should thank my lucky starz cause I've got it made
Lots of people need an occupation
But I guess I just don't have the patience
I've always had a gift or a deeper rooted dream
And the corporate world is like a foreign place to me
I can try and I can try again
I'm never really gon fit in
[Bridge:]
It's all the same routine
(and I'm lucky to be livin it)
And it don't mean much to me
(but money makes it quite equivalent)
I need ta get away
(but this is where I'm comfortable)
Why am I afraid?
(cause I know how far I need to go)
[Chorus:]
I know that I can not be the only one
Tell me there are others out there who feel my song
It's a lonely road when it doesnt ever lead
To my dreams and hopes
And I don't belong
Inside these three walls
[Bridge:]
It's all the same routine
(and I'm lucky to be living it)
And it don't mean much to me
(but money makes it quite equivalent)
I need ta get away
(but this is where I'm comfortable)
Why am I afraid
(cause I know how far I need to go)
[Chorus:]
I know that I can not be the only one
Tell me there are others out there who feel my song
It's a lonely road when it doesnt ever lead
To my dreams and hopes
And I don't belong
MY HEART'S GROWN COLD. THERE'S NOT MUCH LEFT.
MY BLOOD WON'T TURN. AND I CAN SEE MY BREATH.
SHE WALKS ABOVE THE ANGEL'S ROOM.
CATCH THE SNOW, FEELS LIKE WINTER.
I'D DO ANYTHING TO JUST BE WITH HER.
WELL THE WORLD WON'T TURN. THE WORLD WON'T TURN.
THE FRAMES WON'T BREAK. AND THE LETTERS WON'T BURN.
THE WHOLE THING SEEMED LIKE EINSTINES DREAMS.
SEE THE SMOKE, START TO SHIVER.
I'D DO ANYTHING TO JUST FORGET HER.
SHE'S MY GENEVIEVE. SHE'S MY LAZY RIVER.
SHE'S MY ONLY LOVE. SHE'S MY FAVORITE SINNER,GENEVIEVE.
WOO-HO GENEVIEVE.
SOMETIMES I SEE HER. A COLD CHILL OF FEVER.
SO EASY TO BELIEVE HER.
SHE'S MY GENEVIEVE. SHE'S MY LAZY RIVER.
SHE'S MY ONLY LOVE. SHE'S MY FAVORITE SINNER,GENEVIEVE.
WOO-HO...
SHE'S MY GENEVIEVE. SHE'S MY LAZY RIVER.
SHE'S MY ONLY LOVE. SHE'S MY FAVORITE SINNER,GENEVIEVE.
[Verse:]
Here we go again it's another day paid
I should thank my lucky starz cause I've got it made
Lots of people need an occupation
But I guess I just don't have the patience
I've always had a gift or a deeper rooted dream
And the corporate world is like a foreign place to me
I can try and I can try again
But
I'm never really gon fit in
[Bridge:]
It's all the same routine
(and I'm lucky to be livin it)
And it don't mean much to me
(but money makes it quite equivalent)
I need ta get away
(but this is where I'm comfortable)
Why am I afraid?
(cause I know how far I need to go)
[Chorus:]
I know that I can not be the only one
Tell me there are others out there who feel my song
It's a lonely road when it doesnt ever lead
To my dreams and hopes
And I don't belong
Inside these three walls
[Bridge:]
It's all the same routine
(and I'm lucky to be living it)
And it don't mean much to me
(but money makes it quite equivalent)
I need ta get away
(but this is where I'm comfortable)
Why am I afraid
(cause I know how far I need to go)
[Chorus:]
I know that I can not be the only one
Tell me there are others out there who feel my song
It's a lonely road when it doesnt ever lead
To my dreams and hopes
And I don't belong
Inside these three walls
Genevieve, Creo queen, with your love like fire and your heart like a
Guillotine.
You can't sell the heart you stole
You left me standing by the side of the road feeling down
Genevieve your so bad worst person I know and the greatest lover I ever had
All my aces are on your floor I'm kneeling outside your door
Feeling down
Well you took all I had Genevieve and you left me a mess
But if you try to steal my heart again you'll have to cut it out of my
Chest
Genevieve iv got no regrets exept maybe for everything I had to do to
Forget
You're the reason I'm in pain
But my hearts still calling your name
Genevieve
Genevieve wakes up to the cold that she created
There's a winter in her mind, though outside the snow has faded
And the sun is bright
But she's bundled up tight
Hands deep in her pockets, she walks, she doesn't talk much
To the people that she passes, they wave, but she just looks away
And so it goes everyday
CHORUS:
Genevieve, are you lonely?
Cornered in your walls of stone
Genevieve, are you lonely?
You don't have to go alone
Genevieve, no you don't
Genevieve feels different, she swears no one would understand
The world the way she sees it: a frosty, bitter no-man's-land
No one to hold her hand
But when someone approaches the ice queen with her mittens
Well, she thinks of all the times someone left her heart frost-bitten
So she shakes off the warmth
And gives in to the storm
CHORUS
If you take my hand, we can rewrite your song
Or just melt it in the water before it could be sung
But you're looking out for reasons why you can't trust anyone
Genevieve, won't you please open up and feel the sun?
Genevieve wakes up to the cold that she created
There's a winter in her mind, though outside the snow
has faded
And the sun is bright
But she's bundled up tight
Hands deep in her pockets, she walks, she doesn't talk
much
To the people that she passes, they wave, but she just
looks away
And so it goes everyday
CHORUS:
Genevieve, are you lonely?
Cornered in your walls of stone
Genevieve, are you lonely?
You don't have to go alone
Genevieve, no you don't
Genevieve feels different, she swears no one would
understand
The world the way she sees it: a frosty, bitter no-
man's-land
No one to hold her hand
But when someone approaches the ice queen with her
mittens
Well, she thinks of all the times someone left her
heart frost-bitten
So she shakes off the warmth
And gives in to the storm
CHORUS
If you take my hand, we can rewrite your song
Or just melt it in the water before it could be sung
But you're looking out for reasons why you can't trust
anyone
Genevieve, won't you please open up and feel the sun?
CHORUS
(the pilot of your thighs)
Genevieve, genevieve
Dreaming of those castles in the sky
Genevieve, genevieve
And clocks that couldn't wait to tell the time
That's why I'm the pilot of your thighs
The one who holds your hand
When you stare in those canals
The pilot of your thighs
Genevieve, genevieve
Horoscopes were written in the snow
Genevieve, genevieve
Sometimes the sun just gets too close
That's why I'm the pilot of your thighs
The one who holds your hand
When you stare in those canals
Genevieve, Genevieve,
What does it all mean to you?
Genevieve, Genevieve,
My heart is breaking in two.
Goodbye, so long,
I will never be this hurt again.
Oh, Genevieve, Genevieve,
See how the mornin's begin.
Well, wouldn't it be nice,
If I could say, "What the hell, it's been fun."
But, Genevieve, Genevieve,
You're leavin' me leaves me undone.
So my old friend, the highway,
I will cry on your shoulder again.
Oh, Genevieve, Genevieve,
Here's where the story begins.
Laughin' like a fool,
Till I was no longer able to breathe.
A broken-down, shell of a man,
And his woman and me.
Stopped at a cafe,
They would not let us come in.
Oh, Genevieve, Genevieve,
See how the madness begins.
Genevieve,
I just had to see you somehow.
Oh, the years have been kind, you
Were never as lovely as now.
And closing my eyes,
I can almost be with you again.
But Genevieve, Genevieve,
Genevieve lies in bed at night and can't sleep,
Her tummy hurts cuz she hasn't had enough to eat.
Stomach cramps leave her writhing in pain,
Clutching at her abdomen. it's happening again...
"Why, Oh why did I get this way?
I only wanted to lose a little bit of weight...
I wish I could be happy, but it's too late",
She thinks as she picks at the food on her plate.
She tries to take a bite but it's not happening.
Convinced that her piece of toast is too fattening...
Everytime that she tries to eat,
All she sees are the faces of high school bullies.
Every guy who told her she was too fat...
Every boyfriend who only gave a stuff about,
Sex and blow jobs that made her cry.
I hold her close as she tells me...
And I sigh.
She used to look in the mirror and cry,
Looking back at her was a girl twice her size...
Distorted, self-perceptive view through her eyes,
Enhanced furthermore by the media lies.
Reality's perception, Perception pre-defined.
Weight loss encouraged and even glorified.
MTV is brainwashing our children,
Visually and socialogically,
With a fake size zero philosophy.
An ideology that you've gotta be thin,
To appear in any program on that station,
And that's the reason she don't watch TV,
Cuz she's scared of the person who she might be.
Afraid to admit that she's dealing with...
Anorexia nervosa. And she denies it...
She says she doesn't have a problem. But she's lying.
In this segregated room of bleached out white,
The black ink of my pen bleeds when I write.
The frail, decrepit, ghost looking back at me,
Is but a shadow of the girl who used to leave a trail of colour,
Through this monochrome world.
I'm praying for the day that her smile returns.
I tell her not to lose hope,
I'm writing a song,
that's gonna travel 'round the world,
Giving light to the dark.
Musical Anna Karenin - with a happy ending.
I'm no Tolstoy but this story needs to be told,
Of sweet Genevieve,
Broken but bold!
Who's tiny food problem got out of control,
Who since last week doesn't eat no more!
Doctors putting tubes in her stomach makes her vomit...
All she needs to save her right now is a prayer,
[Instrumental]
Verse 1:
747, you're my ticket to heaven, I just hope that I'm not losin' control...
I see you smile from across the aisle, it's like you already know...
Pre-Chorus:
Feels like we're in a dream
Nothing is what it seems
We tried so many things
Now I finally got my wings
Baby don't need to hide
Just come give it a try
Don't need no alibi
Come fly the friendly skies
Chorus:
You and me babe, we're so far off of the ground...
Let's just enjoy the ride tonight and hope we never come down...(X2)
Verse 2:
Don't have to lock the door baby even if someone's knocking...
It makes it more exciting knowing they could be watching, and my...
My body tingles and your touch feels so good...
They say we shouldn't do this but I think that we should...Heeeeeeeyyyyyyyy
Pre-Chorus:
Feels like we're in a dream
Nothing is what it seems
We tried so many things
Now I finally got my wings
Baby don't need to hide
Just come give it a try
Don't need no alibi
Come fly the friendly skies
Chorus:
You and me babe, we're so far off of the ground...
Let's just enjoy the ride tonight and hope we never come down...(X2)
Breakdown:
Never come down...
And hope we never come down...
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, never come...
Ne- ne- never come down...
Never come...
Ouuuuuuuwoooooooo yayheeeeyayyyyyy
Let's just enjoy the riiiiiiiiiiiiide
Let's just enjoy the ride...
I saw her there from across the street
She was dressed in black
And when she moved she moved to a beat
Like a Cadillac
She rode a train, train train train
A train of gold
She was a woman of suspicious ways
Never saw daylight
And in her room she sat and passed the days
And she'd creep out at night
She rode a train, train train train
Train of gold
Train of gold, train of gold
It took me so long to find out I was wrong
Now I wait for her in the night
Looked through a window saw a velvet sky
A shade of green
A violin was playing soft and sweet
Like it was a dream
She rode a train, train train train
Train of gold
Train of gold, train of gold
It took me so long to find out I was wrong
Now I wait for her in the night
Train of gold, train of gold
I don't believe her, it just couldn't be her
I can't get it out of my mind
She rode a train, train train train
Train of gold
She rode a train, train train train
Train of gold
Train, train of gold
Let me see ya, let me see ya touch the floor
Let me see ya, let me see ya touch the floor
Let me see ya, let me see ya touch the floor
Let me see ya, let me see ya touch the floor
[Chorus:]
You can buy me diamonds and rubies, take me to the movies
I don't need a big ring, just something that I can show my groupies
You can call me crazy, but I been waiting for you to give it to me
Only if you want to, only if you want to oooo oooo oooo
[Verse:]
Love is such a complicated thing
I know you just want to relax
Me, too baby what do you say
(Yeeaaah)
I been waiting for someone like you
I know, you been waiting for me too
So what do you say, we go all the way
[Chorus:]
You can buy me diamonds and rubies, take me to the movies
I don't need a big ring, just something that I can show my groupies
You can call me crazy, but I been waiting for you to give it to me
Only if you want to, only if you want to oooo oooo oooo
[Verse:]
I wish I could read into your mind
I know all the things I would find
I think that maybe you feel the same
Hey babe, we been waiting long enough
And I am everything I said I was
I can make you a happy man forever baby
[Bridge:]
Boy I been waiting so long
You know that you got it going on
Just tell me one simple thing
How long am I gon' have to wait for my diamond ring
[Chorus:]
You can buy me diamonds and rubies, take me to the movies (ooo yeah you can buy me diamonds baby)
I don't need a big ring, just something that I can show my groupies (yeah yeah yeah yeah)
You can call me crazy, but I been waiting for you to give it to me (give it to me give it give it to me baby)
Only if you want to (only if you want to), only if you want to
You can buy me diamonds and rubies, take me to the movies
I don't need a big ring, just something that I can show my groupies
You can call me crazy, but I been waiting for you to give it to me (boy give it to me)