Shakespeare-wallah : typescript of a screenplay.

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 including his storyboard sketches in the margins throughout. There is no title page, but the first page is headed "Shakespeare-Wallah." Script is preceded by a typed synopsis (2 pages, stapled).
Includes one manuscript leaf in Hindi.
With a pink note in James Ivory's hand adhered to the interior of the upper wrapper: "J. I.'s shooting script."
Shakespeare-Wallah was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant for Merchant Ivory Productions; it was released in Germany at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1965 and released in New York on 22 March 1966.
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.