GENEVIEVE - PROGRAM SIGNED - HFSID 254283

GENEVIEVE
Singer Genevieve signed this program from her show From Paris With Love, held at the Phoenix Union High School Auditorium in Phoenix, Arizona. Genevieve's tortured English was a running gag on The Jack Paar Show.
Program signed "Genevieve" in blue ink. B/w, 4 pages including covers, 6x9, one sheet folded, front and verso. Program for Genevieve's show From Paris With Love, presented on March 5 by the Phoenix Community & Civic Concert Association at the Phoenix Union High School Auditorium in Phoenix, Arizona. 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). Light nick in top edge. Lightly soiled inside program (no show-through). Otherwise in fine condition.