Genevieve (1953)

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Genevieve is a 1953 British comedy film produced and directed by Henry Cornelius and written by William Rose. It stars John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan, Kenneth More and Kay Kendall as two couples comedically involved in a veteran automobile rally.

Production

Henry Cornelius had made Passport to Pimlico for Ealing Studios, but had left the studio to go independent and make The Galloping Major, which annoyed Michael Balcon, head of production at Ealing. Cornelius developed Genevieve with writer William Rose. Cornelius approached Balcon with an outline for Genevieve and asked to make it at Ealing. However, Balcon turned the film down.

Balcon claims he sent Cornelius to Earl St John, head of production at Rank, the company which owned Ealing (where Balcon had complete autonomy) but made other films through different company. St John was originally not enthusiastic to make the movie - Jill Craige said "the people at Pinewood thought it was too slight. That was the criticism."

St John did agree to take the film to the Rank Board if the budget could be kept to £115,000. The board agreed to provide 70% of the finance if Cornelius could source the rest elsewhere; the director obtained the money from the National Film Finance Corporation. This method was used to make films at British Film-Makers however Genevieve was produced through a separate company, Sirius Productions.

According to Erica Masters, who worked on the film as an assistant, Rank "said to Corney, 'Oh you can't use the people you want, we will give you people.' And at that point, Corney said, 'Look, I'm putting up 'X' amount of money and I am going to have the people I want.'"

Cornelius also obtained private finance. According to Christopher Challis, who shot the film, Cornelius had to "raise the completion guarantee from mortgaging his house."

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