BIB_ID
414430
Accession number
MA 9263
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, screenwriter.
Display Date
Bombay and Benares, India, 1967.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2017.
Description
1 item (approximately 200 leaves), bound ; 30.9 x 21.4 cm
Notes
Shooting script of approximately 200 leaves (typed on the rectos and many with typed or handwritten additions on the versos) heavily annotated and by James Ivory and including his storyboard sketches in the margins throughout. Each typed page is interleaved with one or two blank leaves for notes. Text of the screenplay is preceded by two typed title pages and followed by a glossary.
With a note in James Ivory's hand adhered to the front flyleaf: ""The Guru" shooting script 1967."
The Guru was filmed in 1967-1968 primarily in Bombay and Benares, India.
Date of writing from James Ivory's attestation.
The Guru was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant for Merchant Ivory Productions; it was released in the United States on 10 February 1969.
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.
With a note in James Ivory's hand adhered to the front flyleaf: ""The Guru" shooting script 1967."
The Guru was filmed in 1967-1968 primarily in Bombay and Benares, India.
Date of writing from James Ivory's attestation.
The Guru was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant for Merchant Ivory Productions; it was released in the United States on 10 February 1969.
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.
Provenance
Gift of James Ivory, 2017.
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