Quartet : typescript of a screenplay / a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from a novel by Jean Rhys.

Shooting script of 94 leaves (typed on the rectos and many with typed or handwritten additions on the versos) heavily annotated by James Ivory and including intermittently his storyboard sketches throughout. Script is bound with metal clips. Title page includes address for Merchant Ivory in New York and is dated 29 September 1980. Script is preceded by 63 leaves (variously stapled and loose) of additional script material (the first page of which includes James Ivory's mark of ownership). All material is enclosed in an envelope labeled variously "Shooting Script - JFI," "Quartet 1981," "James Ivory," and "Original Script "Quartet.""
Quartet was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant for Merchant Ivory Productions; it was released in France on 17 May 1981 and released in the United States in July 1981.
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.