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Lynn Redgrave is adorable and the title tune (By Tom Springfield and Jim Dale, sung by the Australian group "The Seekers" featuring Judith Durham, and a number-two chart hit in the U.S.) irresistible in the opening sequence from Georgy Girl, 1966. View the TCMDb entry for Georgy Girl (1966) share video Georgy Girl (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Hey... Lynn Redgrave is adorable and the title tune (By Tom... Georgy Girl (1966) -- (Movie Clip)... Georgy Girl (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Hey There! Lynn Redgrave is adorable and the title tune (By Tom Springfield and Jim Dale, sung by the Australian group "The Seekers" featuring Judith Durham, and a number-two chart hit in the U.S.) irresistible in the opening sequence from Georgy Girl, 1966.> Georgy Girl (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Praying Mantis? Frumpy Georgy (Lynn Redgrave) begins in a reverie which ends...

Georgy Girl (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Praying Mantis? Frumpy Georgy (Lynn Redgrave) begins in a reverie which ends in the apartment with roommate Meredith (Charlotte Rampling) and leads to a social disappointment in Georgy Girl, 1966.> Georgy Girl (1966) -- (Movie Clip) How's Life... Mr. James Leamington (James Mason) makes no secret of his... Georgy Girl (1966) -- (Movie Clip)... Georgy Girl (1966) -- (Movie Clip) How's Life In The Kitchen Sink? Having fled the flat because her roommates having intimate relations, Lynn Redgrave (title character) attempts to slip into her previous residence, where her parents worked as servants to lustful upper-class Londoner Leamington (James Mason), in Georgy Girl,1966.

> Georgy Girl: Steyn's Song of the Week :: SteynOnline Steyn's Song of the Week Steyn's Song of the Week by Tom Springfield and Jim Dale February 15, 2016 The real Seekers and their on-stage alter-egos launch Georgy Girl: The Seekers Musical in Australia last year Hey there, Georgy Girl Swingin' down the street so fancy free... We always like to have an Australian Song of the Week to kick off my tours Down Under, but this one isn't strictly speaking an Aussie song, in the sense that its composer and lyricist are English. On the other hand, it's indelibly associated with the biggest pop group ever to come out of the Lucky Country – and it provides the the title for the brand new biotuner about them that's enjoying its world premiere at Her Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne and which I hope to catch if I get a spare couple of hours over the next fortnight. But my main reason for picking "Georgy Girl" is because the novelist and biographer Margaret Forster died last week.

I can't claim to have known her, but I enjoyed a quarter-hour of pleasant conversation with her a gazillion years ago back when she was, if memory serves, either a judge or nominee for some literary prize and I was covering it for the BBC's "Kaleidoscope". Her husband Hunter Davies has been a Beatles biographer and Punch columnist and whatnot, and a familiar sight on the London media scene, one of those chaps who chose the writing life, one suspects, as much for the social pleasures it affords as for any literary ones. But his wife was famously uninterested in the celebrity circuit, and it was well known among BBC producers that she said no to 99 out of 100 interview requests. She had a global smash with her second novel, written at the age of 27, and she surely must have accepted at a certain point that that particular lightning would not strike again and that her obituaries would be headlined "Georgy Girl Writer Dies". But without Miss Forster we wouldn't have had the book. And without the book we wouldn't have had the film.

And without the film we wouldn't have had: Hey there, Georgy Girl Why do all the boys just pass you by? Could it be you just don't try? Or is it the clothes you wear? Georgy Girl (1965) told the story of an awkward galumphing working-class lass in the new London faced with the unsatisfying romantic choice of a dour older man who's her dad's boss and the errant lover of her glamorous and promiscuous flatmate. It was a hit, and Miss Forster used £4,000 of her royalties to buy her mum a bungalow. The following year it was turned into an even more successful film with Lynn Redgrave as Georgy and a stellar supporting cast - James Mason, Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling, and Lynn's own mother, Rachel Kempson. Miss Forster adapted the novel with the playwright Peter Nichols, and they turned in a taut, tart script on London life: "God always has another custard pie up his sleeve," as Miss Redgrave remarks at one point.

Three years before young Margaret Forster wrote her novel, on the other side of the world in Melbourne, Victoria, three Australians had formed their own antipodean version of the Kingston Trio - Athol Guy on double-bass, Bruce Woodley on guitar, Keith Potger on 12-string guitar. Guy's day job was in advertising, and one day leaving Channel Nine he mentioned to Beverley the receptionist that he thought the trio might benefit from a lady singer. As it turned out, Beverley's sister Judy was a singer, and at that very moment she chanced to telephone, and Beverley put her on to Athol, who promised he'd come hear her sing. Not long after, Judy applied for a job at J Walter Thompson, and was astonished to discover on her first day that working in the agency was the bloke her sister had put her on the phone to, Athol Guy. At the end of that day - December 3rd 1962 - Guy took her along to the trio's gig at the Treble Clef on Toorak Road, and three dozen of their fellow Melburnians heard for the first time a new quartet.

And thus boys met girl: Judith Durham of the bell-like vocal tones that once heard are unmistakeable. Her crystalline voice is in a league of its own, but all four sang, and their voices blended beautifully, which is what it's really about. As Athol Guy said: A lot of groups can sing harmony but a lot of them don't blend. We blended normally because of the timbre of our voices and we recognized we were really good harmony singers... We were lucky. The first time we opened our mouths together, we said that's the sound. That's what we want. You sing through your ears most of the time and then you blend in. Harmonies are one thing, but to get a really good blend that we got, it's quite unique. You've got to have a really great lead singer to be able to do that. And you've got to have a lead singer that forgets that they're the soloist. They have to hold the notes while you wrap the harmonies. It just happened. It was wonderful. In 1964, two years after getting together, The Seekers set sail for Southampton on the SS Fairsky.

They paid their passage by singing on the ship, as The Seekers in the afternoons and as the house rock'n'roll band in the evenings. And they figured they'd have ten weeks in Britain, see if they could get any work, and then come home. They sent ahead their eight-by-tens and a first album to an agent called Eddie Jarrett. He liked what he heard, and had a brilliant notion - to put The Seekers together with a composer called Tom Springfield. Tom had been part of his own Seekeresque group called The Springfields with his sister and a pal. The Springfields had British hits with "Island Of Dreams" and "Say I Won't Be There", and "Silver Threads And Golden Needles" was an Aussie Number One, so they were known Down Under. But then Tom's sister Dusty went off to pursue, as they say, a solo career and no one had any need for a Dusty-less Springfields.

(Political note: For all you John Kasich fans out there, Dusty Springfield subsequently had a big hit with "The only man who could ever reach me was the son of a mailman".) So Tom decided, faute de mieux, to focus on his songwriting and producing - and once he found The Seekers neither party looked back. They met Dusty first, and Dusty introduced them to Tom, who sold Keith a 12-string guitar. His first song for them was "I'll Never Find Another You", which reached Number One in the UK and Oz and got the Seekers the Best New Group at the Top of the Pops Awards. They were untypical pop stars, eschewing drugs and groupies and leaving hotel rooms neater than they found them. Ensconced in a windowless bedsit in London's Aussie quarter of Earls Court, Judith Durham made her own frocks based on the Queen's. "I felt that's how a lady is supposed to dress," she told The Sydney Morning Herald. "I had my matching handbag and gloves, everything." And then came Georgy Girl. If you're making a film, you need a theme song – or you did in those days.

Sometimes a movie theme is just a bit of aural filler to play over the credits. But sometimes, more rarely, it enlarges the picture, and implants the title out there in the wider world. There are very few people who were young in 1966 for whom the phrase "Georgy Girl" isn't automatically preceded by the words "Hey there..." Dreamin' of the someone you could be Life is a reality You can't always run away... The tune was, naturally, by Tom Springfield, and so strong that it attracted an unusual number of instrumental recordings. Even on the Seekers recording, the whistling intro's sold you on the song before a word is sung. For some reason the lyric fell to Jim Dale. To 21st century children around the English-speaking world, Jim Dale is the guy who made long car journeys bearable, as the reader of the Harry Potter audio books. To Gitmo detainees, he's the infidel devil that the Great Satan uses to torture them, pumping the same Harry Potter stories into their cells as aural disorientation. To 1980s Broadway audiences, he's the unforgettable star of Barnum and Joe Egg.

But back in Britain in 1966 he was the boyish charmer of the unending series of low-budget trouser-droppers, the Carry On films. I met him in New York after the run of Barnum, and he told me he still got a laugh every time he passed a store called Ballocks, because in a Carry On it would be the name of Sid James' character or the restive Afghan tribe threatening the colonial governor or the name of the new medical device Hattie Jacques wants to insert in Kenneth Williams. I can't remember his explanation for how a Carry On actor got to write a movie song for Lynn Redgrave, James Mason and Alan Bates, but he gave the impression that in Swinging London back then everyone knew everyone (Michael Caine was John Barry's flatmate, etc) so he had a go at songwriting. In case you're wondering, his other hit was "Dick-A-Dum-Dum". I'll stick with "Georgy Girl". "It's a brilliant lyric," said Judith Durham, "especially for me with my self-esteem problems.

It's always been the perfect lyric for me to sing": Hey there, Georgy Girl Swingin' down the street so fancy-free Nobody you meet could ever see The loneliness there Inside you... For a dilettante moonlighting from trouser-dropping, that's pretty solid and professional: The "hey there" on those big opening notes, and then the "swingin' down the street" as the tune takes off swinging and swaying and wiggling. And he's even got some internal rhymes in there: "Swingin' down the street"/"Nobody you meet". That parenthetic "Inside you" is a very nice touch on Springfield and Dale's part, and it's reprised not, as you might expect, in the next main-theme section but at the end of the release; You're always window shopping But never stopping to buy So shed those dowdy feathers and fly A little bit... The tune is Swinging London at its most buoyant and sunny. The street it's swingin' down so fancy free is Carnaby Street - a leggy girl in mini-skirt swinging past the groovy boutiques in the lunch hour of an endless sunny afternoon.

It's also one of the all-time great whistling records - not whistling as in the sense of Bing and Jolson, as a kind of instrumental break halfway through the record: "Georgy"'s whistling seems to be embedded as an indispensable part of the arrangement, if not of the composition itself. And who needs big studio music-department orchestras? "Georgy Girl" has an acoustic guitar, hand-claps for percussion, and never sounds as if it wants for anything else. And the beautifully blended voices of the Seekers are about the fullest sound you'll ever need - which is why solo singers approach this song at their peril. The tune's breezy optimism is a wee bit at odds with the film, which is a somewhat bleak kitchen-sink drama, and in black-and-white to boot. But Jim Dale's lyric bridges the music and the movie: So shed those dowdy feathers and fly A little bit There's another Georgy deep inside Bring out all the love you hide And, oh, what a change there'd be...

The whistling and sunniness are that other Georgy deep inside: what she could be when she's shed those dowdy feathers and is flying - not "a little bit" but soaring sky high. Jim Dale told me a story all those years ago that I didn't quite believe – about auditioning the song for a couple of grizzled old bruisers who demanded certain changes or "Frank won't sing it". As in Sinatra. "It doesn't woik for him," Dale mimicked the boys saying. Could be, I suppose. Could have been Sarge Weiss or Hank Sanicola. On the other hand, it's hard to conceive of the changes you'd have to make to "Georgy Girl" to get Frank to sing it. On the other other hand, he sang "Winchester Cathedral" and "Downtown" without any changes, so who knows? In the event, "Georgy Girl" didn't need Frank. The Seekers' record got to Number Three in Britain, Number Two in America and, of course, Number One in Australia. It's the song that made them stars beyond the British Commonwealth: Their album Come The Day was quickly re-labeled Georgy Girl for its US release.

It was nominated for an Academy Award, and would have been the first British song to win an Oscar, except it lost to another Brit hit "Born Free" (by John Barry and Don Black). On March 12th 1967, at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, the Seekers sang the number to a record-breaking crowd of over 200,000 people - one tenth of the city's then population, and the largest live audience ever in the southern hemisphere. The Aussie rock journo Ian McFarlane famously characterized The Seekers as "too pop to be considered strictly folk and too folk to be rock". But that's only a problem for rock critics obsessed with pigeonholing. The Seekers didn't need to worry about being too this or too that, because they were very good at being The Seekers - if only for a while. In 1968, six years after getting together, they split up to go seek something else. Their final hit was another Tom Springfield song with an elegaic title, "The Carnival Is Over", which remains one of the thirty biggest-selling singles of all time in Britain. But the carnival is never over, it just moves on.

So a few years later guitarist Keith Potger sought out a group of new Seekers that he called The New Seekers. They had a monster planet-wide hit in 1972 with a famous Coke jingle, "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing", but there was something about the old Seekers that the new ones never quite found. You can hear the difference in the New Seekers' cover of the old ones'"Georgy Girl" on the album We'd Like To Teach The World To Sing. Lots of Top Five records from the Sixties seem locked in their time. But this somehow both captures a moment and transcends it: A few years back, when Rolling Stone listed its Top 500 Songs of All Time, "Georgy Girl" was Number 36. Which is to say that there are only 35 songs ever written that Rolling Stone considers better than this one. In a way the success of the song hurt Margaret Forster's book, or at any rate potential adaptations thereof. "Every few years someone tries to turn Georgy Girl into a musical," Jim Dale said to me.

"But you can't do it without that song, can you?" In fact, you can't even use the book's title - because the moment you announce the forthcoming Broadway smash Georgy Girl: The Musical, everyone expects to hear: Hey there, Georgy Girl Swingin' down the street so fancy free... So the 1970 Broadway version had to go under the name of Georgy, which isn't half as strong. Nor was its title song. The score was by George Fischoff and Carole Bayer, who became better known as Carole Bayer Sager, writer of hits such as "Arthur's Theme", "On My Own", "Nobody Does It Better", etc. But in Georgy she couldn't deliver anything that matched the work of Dusty Springfield's brother and the juvenile lead of Carry On Up The Khyber. In December last year "Georgy Girl" finally did become the title song of a musical - the only musical it could really be, a show about The Seekers and their many hits that opened just before Christmas at Her Majesty's Theatre in their hometown of Melbourne. They're known for a handful of hits in America, and beloved in Britain, but they're legends in Australia.

Indeed, in 2014, when I heard that all four had been made Officers of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours, my initial reaction was astonishment that it had been taken long. My God, they put Rolf in the Order of Australia in 1989 (since revoked) and the bloody Wiggles in in 2010. But The Seekers don't really need any of that stuff, do they? Not when you can harmonize and whistle and clap hands, and you have a song that's eternally young: Hey there, Georgy Girl Georgy Girl by The Seekers Songfacts Georgy Girl by The Seekers Songfacts Songfacts This was featured in the 1966 movie of the same name. Set in London, the film is a comedy/romance starring Lynn Redgrave. The Seekers sang two different sets of lyrics over the credits and the titles of the movie. A different version was recorded and released as the single. >> Suggestion credit: Brad Wind - Miami, FL Olivia Newton-John recorded a new version of this song for the soundtrack of the 2011 movie A Few Best Men.

>> Suggestion credit: THE SEEKERS - GEORGY GIRL LYRICS Georgy Girl Lyrics -Artists: The Seekers from "The Seekers Greatest Hits"-Capitol 4XL-9397 -peak Billboard position # 2 in 1966-67 -title song from film starring Lynn Redgrave, James Mason, Alan Bates, and -Charlotte Rampling -Words by Jim Dale and Music by Tom Springfield Hey there, Georgy girl Swingin' down the street so fancy-free Nobody you meet could ever see the loneliness there inside you Hey there, Georgy girl Why do all the boys just pass you by? Could it be you just don't try or is it the clothes you wear?

You're always window shopping but never stopping to buy So shed those dowdy feathers and fly a little bit Hey there, Georgy girl There's another Georgy deep inside Bring out all the love you hide and, oh, what a change there'd be The world would see a new Georgy girl Hey there, Georgy girl Dreamin'; of the someone you could be Life is a reality, you can't always run away Don't be so scared of changing and rearranging yourself It's time for jumping down from the shelf a little bit Hey there, Georgy girl There's another Georgy deep inside Bring out all the love you hide and, oh, what a change there'd be The world would see a new Georgy girl (Hey there, Georgy girl) Georgy Girl - The Seekers Musical, A Celebration of Life | The Culture Concept Circle The Seekers – A continuing celebration of life Written by Patrick Edgeworth, Georgy Girl – The Seekers Musical is all about the band whose modest beginnings from working live in a café in South Yarra took them to concerts around the world. The producers are promising a journey full of laughter, a few tears, but most of all, featuring the magnificent songs we all know and love.

Hey their Georgy Girl…became the ‘catch cry’ anthem of women all around the world when it was the theme song for the movie of the same known. Written by Tom Springfield and with lyrics by Jim Dale, released in 1966 it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Genre wise it was outside the boundaries of folk, pop and rock, seemingly embracing all three. In 2002 it was listed as number 36 on Rolling Stone’s Magazine “500 Greatest Pop Songs of All Time”. The Seekers 50th Anniversary Tour The key to the song’s success were The Seekers an Australian group, which had come together in 1962 and had numerous Top Ten hits during the 1960’s, ensuring they were much in demand. Named joint Australian’s of the Year in 1968, The Seekers are the only music group every honoured that way. They were also individually honoured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours as ‘Officers of the Order of Australia’ in 2014 for having been great ambassadors for both our country and popular music in particular for over a half a century.

The three guys in the group Bruce Woodley, Athol Guy and Keith Potger all went to Melbourne Boys High School together. They all loved music passionately, sharing their enthusiasm and thoughts for the future. Woodley playing guitar, banjo and mandolin as well as being a vocalist and song writer, while Athol Guy played double bass and sang and Keith Potger, played 12 string guitar, mandolin, banjo and sang. Judith Durkah on the cusp of fame… In 1962 the trio who had formed a folk group The Escorts, which had a lead singer who left the group to get married. Judith Durham took his place and her added dynamic changed their lives forever. Judith Durham met Athol Guy an account executive at the advertising agency where she was working and the rest became history when they changed the name of the group to The Seekers and started their huge rise to extraordinary success. At that point Judith Durham had been singing for some years, playing piano and performed blues, gospel and jazz at the Memphis Jazz Club in Malvern, Melbourne. So their sound once she came into the mix was truly unique.

Potger was also an ABC radio producer, which came in handy when they wanted to make a demo tape to expand their work opportunities. 1964 was the year they really took off when they released their now arguably most famous piece of music ‘Ill Never Find Another You’. This popular piece became a love anthem for many a young couple with romantic notions being the order of the day. I remember it well because my fiancée and I at the time were among those smitten by their sound. When it reached No 1 on the box office in the UK and Australia they knew they had ‘arrived’ Then Jim Dale’s Georgy Girl would take that success much further by becoming Number 2 on the Billboard Char and Number One on the Cashbox Chart in the USA. The Seekers, Keith Potger, Bruce Woodley and Athol Guy arrive at the Apra Music Awards “We are absolutely delighted that the story and the music of the Seekers is being brought to the stage as a musical. The idea of a musical based on the story of our group was first raised over four years ago by someone very familiar to us – Patrick Edgeworth, the talented scriptwriter is Judith’s brother in-law, and knows our story well.

He consulted with Graham Simpson, who has been part of our team for many years, and wrote Judith’s life story in his best-selling book ‘The Judith Durham Story – Colours of My Life’. “In August 2014, Richard East and Dennis Smith asked us to be part of an invited industry audience at a workshop presentation of the musical. The response from the audience was amazing – a standing ovation. It was everything we could have wanted and more. “We hope you will share and continue to enjoy our journey, as our story comes to life as a brand new Australian musical.” – Judith Durham, Athol Guy, Keith Potger & Bruce Woodley, The Seekers Casting for the show will take place in July and the hunt is already on for the girl chosen to project Durham’s unique sound. The timing is right, the audience assured, grandparent can take their grandchildren, sons and daughters can take their mothers and fathers. Tickets to the show will be the ideal present for Xmas or indeed, for any day of the year. Georgy Girl – The Seekers Musical is all about the gift of life and a life well lived, something we all aspire to do. The Seekers – There Never Will Be Another You.

Carolyn McDowall, The Culture Concept Circle, 2015 The Seekers - Georgy Girl - YouTube The Seekers - Georgy Girl Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Oct 18, 2006 Here's the Seekers performing Hey There Georgy Girl - live from 1966 in Melbourne Australia. (Viewers: it is youtube, not me, that lists this artist as the New Seekers. I do know the difference Category Georgy Girl Reviews & Ratings - IMDb IMDb 51 out of 57 people found the following review useful: Hey There, Georgy Girl! - What a Wonderful Story! 5 June 2004 *** This review may contain spoilers *** Lynn Redgrave and James Mason are perfectly cast as the pudgy, ugly duckling Georgy and the lonely, aging millionaire who adores the young woman without means.

Redgrave's roommate is a cold-hearted and embittered woman, who banks on her good looks to get her what she wants out of life. Although the roommate becomes pregnant by her fiancee, the young man soon realizes that he fancys the homely but sweet Georgy over the constantly complaining woman about to give birth to his child. The baby is born and is instantly rejected by the mother. Georgy is determined to protect the innocent child and to bring her up by herself, if she had to. The ending is one of my favorite film conclusions ever. You will not be disappointed! This film was ahead of its time in 1966 England (and the world). Despite the progressive themes, both the film and its infectious theme song became enormous successes. If you know the song, look for a much more elaborate rendition in the film, featuring many extra lines. The same was done with the legendary "Song From Moulin Rouge" (1952). -- "Georgy Girl" receives my highest recommendation!***** Was the above review useful to you?

39 out of 41 people found the following review useful: 60s London well worth a (re)visit from Oakland, CA, USA 24 January 2006 I enjoyed "Georgy Girl" at the time of its original release, but hadn't thought about it until I recently viewed the DVD version. This revisit was well worth it: "Georgy Girl" is a delightful film. Charlotte Rampling's Meredith is my favorite of the four main characters. Rampling has always been physically stunning, but it's her moody intellect within that keeps Meredith modern rather than a 60s icon who looks sensational in Mary Quant mini-dresses, a darker version of Julie Christie in "Darling" (a character who didn't have too much of a light side herself). Meredith is cool, in control, self-serving, brutal, and surprisingly honest about who she is. "You take me as me," she tells Jos (Alan Bates) as she cajoles him into marrying her, not so much because she's pregnant but because she's bored.

It seems in Meredith's view, you can easily get rid of a pregnancy, but boredom requires more skill and is potentially a worse situation in which to find yourself. Other actresses could have successfully made Meredith a bitch, but Rampling makes her fascinating and thus strangely likable. When she exits the film, things go a bit limp, but then there's little left than to move the story to its inevitable conclusion. Alan Bates plays Jos with such high physical and verbal energy he seems to be all the Marx Brothers rolled into one. His facial expression at the culmination of his strip during the 'I Love You' sequence suggested to me a nod to the great Harpo. Lynn Redgrave made the role of Georgy so much her own it's difficult to believe the story that Vanessa Redgrave had been originally intended for it -- and even more difficult to imagine Vanessa playing scenes with Rampling. The title song became a big hit at the time. In the film, the lyrics vary somewhat from the pop version, serving to set up the plot during the opening credits and then comment on its resolution at the end.

In between, the song politely vanishes, leaving the classically influenced score by Alexander Faris to take over with its harpsichord riffs and its subtle playfulness. I especially liked the violin solo that accompanies the transition from orgasm to morning sickness. The dialogue is often fast, overlapping, thrown away, or contains obscure (to me) cultural references, so it's worth enabling the English subtitles for DVD viewing. You wouldn't want to miss "Moss Bros", or Alan Bates' rapid-fire disrobing monologue, or Meredith's contempt for the concert at which she has just played violin: "Beethoven night. They're like animals." Was the above review useful to you? 43 out of 50 people found the following review useful: its time for jumping down from the shelf, a little bit from San Francisco 24 December 2004 Good performances from Redgrave, Mason, Rampling and Bates. A modest film that found international approval.

In 1966, while it may have seemed shocking to hear UK girl Charlotte Rampling tell Alan Bates that she had "destroyed" two of his already, it's worth remembering that an American girl couldn't have a legal abortion unless there were extenuating circumstances. Roe v. Wade was still several years away. The wholesome longings of Goergie are sharply contrasted with her roommate, the ice cold Meredith. The lead was originally offered to Vanessa Redgrave and when she backed out her younger sister Lynne was cast. She was overwhelmingly brave playing Georgie as a girl you liked enough that when she does something embarrassing you can't help but flinch. It happens a lot. As she falls and fails she finds a life of her own. And that is oddly inspirational. Was the above review useful to you? 37 out of 40 people found the following review useful: One of my personal cult movies from Ottawa, Canada 22 April 2002 Reviews seem to miss the real theme of this film, which is about the voyage of self-discovery of a person who feels out of sync with her world and tries to define, or redefine, her own true self.

This theme has a strange attraction for me -- I identify with Georgy's search, I think, because of my own feelings of misalignment with the world or alienation. Unfortunately, as a male, it seems that the principal characters in films addressing this theme with sensitivity are invariably women. Perhaps in our society men are expected not to have such uncertainties about themselves or to suppress them, so no films are made. Two other films I enjoyed because of their similar themes are "Muriel's Wedding" and "Thelma and Louise". If you like, you can tell me I'm reading far more into this film than was ever intended, reminiscent of Mark Twain's famous warning. But you won't convince me! Alan Was the above review useful to you? 34 out of 38 people found the following review useful: Its Alan Bates film. from Australia 21 October 2005 It was wonderfully interesting reading the reviews; even the ones I disagree with. All the performances are wonderful and as for the Seekers title song it will always give me goose bumps. I think its this movie that really introduced Alan Bates, at any rate I certainly sat up and noticed. I love his performance in this film.

He is a rogue that you cannot help but fall in love with. I love the way the film opens especially the pulse of a London that has sadly long gone. Lyn Redgraves big production number is a real hoot and I agree with the comments about James Mason. What a gifted actor he was. Bates is however the real reason why I love the movie. I confess I had an enormous crush on Bates in this role and that scene when you see his bum as he gets out of the bath well, enough said. Lyn Redgrave, James Mason and the remarkable Rampling are all marvelous. Was the above review useful to you? 27 out of 37 people found the following review useful: An anthem for heavy girls the world over from New York, NY 6 March 2001 I was a teen when this first came out and as a little piglette, this movie struck a special chord with me. I saw it twice in the theatres, then did not see it again until about 3 months ago, and then again last night. It holds up wonderfully, both as an anthem and as a bizarre comedy-drama.

Lynn Redgrave is magnificent in the title role, and Charlotte Rampling is nothing short of brilliant as her roommate Meredith. Alan Bates is equally brilliant in an eccentric supporting role. This is a marvelous time capsule, but the central elements still hold true today. See it. Was the above review useful to you? 24 out of 32 people found the following review useful: Undiscovered witty girl kisses toad; later finally finds prince 24 May 2004 So fun! And a few other little gems in this mod 60's film! Other reviews here will give you a plot overview. Basically Georgy is the fun, vivacious but unpopular girl who eventually gets some of her dreams, tho with a price. I wouldn't have been allowed to see Georgy Girl when it came out. I was too young & the (by today's standards modest) 1960's bedroom scenes meant Mom would say "NO!" It's not a suitable family film.

But now---I'd love to watch it with my teenage daughter & comment on how Georgy --hardly noticed by her parents---chased by her parents' employer---and loved by a ne'er do well "Peter Pan" finally comes out rather well! Georgy Girl is that odd little chick flick film where many of us women (girls) can identify with the fun, attractive, but slightly awkward lead, played marvelously by Lynn Redgrave. Some may root for Alan Bates' JOS character, but middle-aged me knows a "toad" --however handsome---when I see one. And James Mason's "rich James Leamington" is a prince with some moral "warts" to work out... but I cheer for him, because he is (however he might disguise it) essentially a chivalrous man, a shy man who absolutely adores Georgina and, as she says to him "you said you would do anything for me" totally devoted to her... Watch scenes where Mr. Leamington and Georgy's father discuss her. Watch Mason's facial expressions closely to see why he was Oscar nominated-- (the director was rather stingy with closeups in key moments).

Georgy's parents don't particularly like her---and see only the duckling and not the emerging swan. Note that Georgy gradually assumes control of James, as she first shows fear when she sees Leamington, but later it's "Poor James". A foreshadowing of their future? And I love it in the scene when Georgy (and James in top hat & fancy apparel) haul the baby carriage he was asked to buy for Georgy's adopted baby Sarah up the many stairs to her apartment. She gets back at James by some cheeky comments in front of two proper elderly ladies. (Watch her interactions with both suitors... she can demonstrate wit and charm...) Tho the Georgy Girl film theme song by the Seekers sneers at Georgy "...a little bit", I suspect this film was big because it struck a chord with so many girls & women. Sort of like the Janice Ian song "At Seventeen" in the 1970's. Finally on DVD, but no "extras". But check Lynn Redgrave's site for more "Georgy" photos & info! Was the above review useful to you?

16 out of 18 people found the following review useful: British Nouvelle Vague from Los Angeles, CA 11 February 2008 I watched this movie mostly for Lynn Redgrave, expecting nothing more than an old, light-hearted British comedy. It was better than I expected; "Georgy Girl" is a lovely, bittersweet dramedy clearly inspired by American screwball comedies of the 30's and the French New Wave that was burning in the 60's (to see how much the Nouvelle Vague aesthetics influenced British cinema, check the also remarkable "Two for the Road", with Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn). Redgrave, fantastic as usual, plays Georgy, a scatter-brained working-class virgin with a golden heart. She shares a flat with a selfish, cold bitch (Charlotte Rampling), who gets pregnant of Jos (Alan Bates), and the three of them eventually move together; but things get complicated as Georgy is courted by Jos and James (James Mason), a much older man, at the same time.

Bates (is it just me, or does he look like Jean-Paul Belmondo - one of the greatest Nouvelle Vague icons because of Godard's "Breathless" - in this?), Rampling and Mason are all great in their respective parts, but this is Redgrave's show all the way. Her anti-heroine is sweet and memorable, somewhat similar to Toni Collette's Muriel Heslop (from "Muriel's Wedding"), some sort of a British, less patient and clumsier Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tautou). Georgy singing "Whole Lotta Woman" is a classic scene. Lynn's performance alone would make this movie worth seeing, but she's not the only good thing about it, just the core. 10/10. Was the above review useful to you? 16 out of 19 people found the following review useful: Surprisingly engaging and moving from United States 25 July 2006 A movie that starts and ends with an ingratiatingly contagious pop song would portend to be as substantive as a Fluffer Nutter sandwich.

But Georgy Girl is surprisingly engaging, and tugs at far more profound emotions than those tapped by, say, Bridget Jones' Diary, which might be seen as a modern equivalent. The song -- or actually, two different version of the same song -- is essential to understanding the movie, which makes one wonder which came first. Was the song inspired by the novel, or was it written for the movie? The opening, like a music video, introduces us to Georgina, or Georgy, and to her plight as a terribly un-chic 60s chick. But what makes Georgy interesting is that she clearly doesn't care that she's out of sync with Swinging London, circa 1966. The timing of the film is also critical, just as it was with The Graduate. The London youth scene we are introduced to -- in black and white, no less -- is one in which conventional morals and values are being shed, yet there is still an innocence about it. The decadence that would taint the later '60s is hinted at in the troubles Georgy's roommate, the seemingly hip and carefree Meredith, faces in the latter half of the film.

And the character of Jos, Meredith's boyfriend and then husband, also embodies the joie de vivre spirit of the day, but then crashes into the dead end that inevitably comes when a man lives like a child (even one of the flower variety). Georgy's relationship with her father's employer, James (played by James Mason), is troubling in its incestuous overtones, but maybe the discomfort the viewer feels is intended. My only gripe is that the conclusion of the film -- when we learn what Georgy is really all about, what she wants out of life -- is explained in the song, and not as clearly revealed in the plot or character exposition. But I suppose that lends a certain charm to the story, as if Georgy is indeed living inside a pop tune. Georgy Girl, though very much of its time, is not dated, and explores choices we all make within a unique context, that of a moment in time when culture and values began tilting off their axis. Was the above review useful to you? 12 out of 13 people found the following review useful: I should see it again...

18 April 2008 *** This review may contain spoilers *** This film gets seven out of ten on acting alone. James Mason is perfectly creepy, and yet you can still sympathize with him. Lynn Redgrave is just... perfect for the part. And Alan Bates.... yes I confess it, I had a crush on him too. Favorite scene: the alternating, silent close-ups between Georgy and Jos, as Jos slowly realizes that he is, in fact, in love with Georgy (before following her around half of London yelling "I love you!" at the top of his lungs!!!) I seem to recall that the ending was somewhat disturbing for me when I originally watched it... I wonder how I would feel about it now. Most reviewers I've read seem to believe that Georgy has found herself in the end; I disagree. I leave individual viewers to make up their own minds. Was the above review useful to you? Page 1 of 5:

Question: Who sang the theme song to the 1966 film 'Georgy Girl'?
Answer: THE SEEKERS