Charley Varrick
Scenes from the 1973 movie "Charley Varrick" were filmed in Genoa, and the village was the set for the 1990 movie "Misery", starring Kathy Bates, when the village doubled in size with buildings added and then removed after the filming. Food writer M. F. K. Fisher wrote a series of cookbook reviews for "The New Yorker" from her sister's home in Genoa during the 1960s.