Greenwich Village Story

Greenwich Village Story, a 1963 feature film written and directed by Jack O'Connell, centres on the bohemian milieu of Greenwich Village. The female protagonist, Genie, a talented ballet dancer, is made pregnant out of wedlock by her underachieving boyfriend, Brian, a would-be novelist. Rather than leave him in order to take up a professional dancing role she has been offered which involves touring, Genie stays in the flat they share, but Brian, after the damning rejection of his novel by a publisher upon whose patronage he was depending, absents himself for several days with an ex-girlfriend, Anne, a society woman several years older who inhabits the periphery of bohemia, sometimes in the company of a genial young advertising copywriter, George.