Jane Austen in Manhattan : typescript of a screenplay / by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

Shooting script of approximately 140 leaves (typed on the rectos and many with typed or handwritten additions on the versos) heavily annotated by James Ivory and with his mark of ownership on the first page of the additional material preceding the script. Title page includes addresses for Merchant Ivory productions in New York and London. Script is bound in a green three-ring binder with several loose sheets inserted throughout. Script is preceded by additional material (11 pages, stapled and loose) and followed by a typed staff and crew list (4 pages, stapled and bound in the three-ring binder).
With a note in James Ivory's hand adhered to the first page of the additional material preceding the script : "Jane Austen James' script additional scenes."
Jane Austen in Manhattan was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant for Merchant Ivory Productions; it was released in the United Kingdom in July 1980 and in the United States on 18 November 1981.
Script concerns Jane Austen's play Sir Charles Grandison, which is a dramatization of scenes from Samuel Richardson's novel, The History of Sir Charles Grandison.
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.