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Mr. and Mrs. Bridge : typescript of a screenplay / screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala based on the novels Mrs. Bridge and Mr. Bridge by Evan S. Connell.

BIB_ID
414448
Accession number
MA 9284
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, screenwriter.
Display Date
New York?, 1989.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2017.
Description
1 item (approximately 130 leaves), unbound ; 28.1 x 21.6 cm
Notes
Shooting script of approximately 130 leaves (typed on the rectos and some with handwritten additions on the versos) heavily annotated by James Ivory. Title page includes the note: "Teresa - pages should be redone by Studio Duplicating at once. Thanks, J." Script is typed on white, green, and pink leaves. Continuity notes (10 pages, stapled) and additional script material (11 pages, stapled and clipped) are laid in preceding script. Script is laid (probably formerly post-bound) in green wrappers, upper cover stamped "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" and with the address of Studio Duplicating Services in New York.
Location of writing inferred from note on title page.
Mr. and Mrs. Bridge was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant for Merchant Ivory Productions; it was released in the United States on 23 November 1990.
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.