Geneviève Waïte (born Genevieve Joyce Weight, 13 February 1948 – 18 May 2019) was a South African actress, singer, and model. Her best known acting role was the title character in the 1968 film ''Joanna''. She was a muse to photographer

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, who shot her several times for ''

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'' in the early 1970s. In 1974, she recorded her only album as a singer produced and written by her husband John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas. Her singing voice has been described as “Betty Boop crossed with Billie Holiday”. That same year, she starred in a short-lived Broadway musical, Man on the Moon, which she co-wrote with John Phillips and was produced by

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Personal life

Waite married Matthew Reich on 10 December 1968; They later divorced. Waite then married John Phillips, on 31 January 1972, at a Chinese restaurant in Los Angeles' Chinatown by a one-legged Buddhist priest. They had two children: Tamerlane Phillips (b. 1971) and actress

Bijou Phillips Bijou Lilly Phillips Masterson (born April 1, 1980) is an American actress, model and singer. The daughter of musician John Phillips and Geneviève Waïte, she began her career as a model. Phillips made her singing debut with '' I'd Rather Ea ...

(b. 1980). They divorced in 1985. She then married Norman Buntaine; they later separated.

Filmography

* ''

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'' (1968) as "Joanna". * ''

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'' (1970) as "The Girl" * '' Myra Breckinridge'' (1970) as the "Dental patient" (uncredited) * ''Short Distance'' (1989) as Mona

Music

Waite's 1974 album ''

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,'' released on John Phillips label Paramour, featured a cover image of Waite as a Vargas girl shot by Richard Avedon. A 2011 release of the album on CD includes her

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of the Velvet Underground song "

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" as a bonus track.

Death

On 18 May 2019, Waite died in her sleep in Los Angeles, California. Her daughter, Bijou, announced her mother's death several days later.

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Waite, Genevieve English emigrants to South Africa 1948 births 2019 deaths Actresses from Cape Town Burials at Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City) South African film actresses South African emigrants to the United States South African female models 20th-century South African women singers White South African people