The wild party : typescript of a screenplay / a film; screenplay, music and lyrics by Walter Marks adapted from a poem by Joseph Moncure March.

Shooting script of 120 leaves (typed on the rectos and many with typed or handwritten additions on the versos) heavily annotated and by James Ivory and with his mark of ownership on the title page. Title page includes the typed note "Revised April 5, 1974" and an address for Edgar Lansbury and Joseph Beruh in New York.
The Wild Party was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant for Merchant Ivory Productions; it was released in the United States in March 1975.
Script is enclosed (was probably once post-bound) in blue wrappers, upper cover stamped "The Wild Party." A single sheet of white acid-free paper has been adhered to each the upper and lower covers; sheet on the upper cover is labeled in James Ivory's hand "J. Ivory's script." Further enclosed in a manila file folder labeled variously "The Wild Party 1975," "Newspaper Articles Early" and "Resumes."
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.