GENEVIEVE - CONTRACT DOUBLE SIGNED 03/21/1960 - HFSID 262636

GENEVIEVE
Genevieve signed this contract with Roncom Productions in 1960 to appear as a guest star on Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall for $7,500. Singer Genevieve Genevieve's tortured English was a running gag on The Jack Paar Show.
Contract signed "Genevieve" as Performer and initialed "GA", both in blue ink. Also signed and initialed by an Assistant Secretary for Roncom Productions, Inc. 2 pages, 8½x11, one sheet, front and verso, with 7 single-sided pages of riders, bound at top edge with staples. With additional 8½x7 rider stapled to last page with two staples. March 21, 1960. Headed: "Standard AFTRA Engagement Contract for Single Television Broadcast/and for Multiple Television Broadcasts within One Calendar Week". Genevieve signed this contract with Roncom Productions to appear as a guest star on the May 11, 1960 episode of Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall, with rehearsals beginning on May 6, 1960. She was to be paid $7,500 for this appearance. French actor and singer Genevieve (1920-2004), born Ginette Marguerite Auger, is probably best known to American audiences as a regular singer on The Jack Paar Show (1958-1962) whose shaky-at-best English became a running joke on the show. According to one story, she had a fever before her first appearance on the show. She got some hot buttered rum for it from Paar, got her a little drunk and mangled her English. Far from killing her career in the U. S., Paar and Genevieve ran with it and turned it into her signature on the show. Genevieve was discovered by an American agent at her own cafe, Chez Genevieve in Montmarte, France, where she did double-duty as cook and entertainer. She made numerous appearaces on talk shows between 1958 and 1973 and had acting credits on five movies and TV shows: the TV movies Satins and Spurs (1954) and If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them (1968), the movies A Musical Tribute to Paris (1959) and The Spy With a Cold Nose (1966) and the TV series Scruples (1980). Lightly toned and creased. Last page has separated from staples. Staple holes at top edge. Lightly discolored in top right corner. Otherwise in fine condition.