Hullabaloo over Georgie and Bonnie's pictures : typescript of a screenplay.

Record ID: 
414427
Accession number: 
MA 9271
Author: 
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, screenwriter.
Credit: 
Gift of James Ivory, 2017.
Description: 
1 item (approximately 70 leaves), bound ; 34.8 x 25.8 cm
Notes: 

Shooting script of approximately 70 leaves (typed on the rectos and many with typed or handwritten additions on the versos) heavily annotated by James Ivory. There is no title page. Script is fastened in an Ravi office file, which contains extensive notes, and is preceded by notes (2 pages) in James Ivory's hand.
With two notes in James Ivory's hand adhered to the interior of the Ravi office file enclosure: "Director's script" and ""Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures" shooting script 1977."
Hullabaloo over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant for Mercant Ivory Productions. The film was released in the United Kingdom in September 1978.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the script. See also Robert Emmet Long, James Ivory in Conversation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), p. 105-109.
Date of writing from James Ivory's attestation.
Part of a collection of film director James Ivory's heavily annotated shooting scripts, editing notebooks, and small scripts. Each of the thirty-one films he directed for Merchant Ivory Productions is represented in the collection, beginning with the production company's first film, The Householder (1963), and including, among others, The Europeans (1979), A Room with A View (1985), Howards End (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993), The Golden Bowl (2000), and The City of Your Final Destination (2010). The collection also includes two films directed by Ivory's partner, Ismail Merchant (In Custody (1994) and The Mystic Masseur (2002)). Items in the collection have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.

Binding: 
Ravi Office file, Superior No. A1, labeled variously "Hullabaloo (2)," "Ivory - Room 24" and "Hullabaloo over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures 1977."
Provenance: 
Gift of James Ivory, 2017.