Surviving Picasso : typescript of a screenplay / screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

Shooting script of approximately 150 leaves (typed on the rectos and many with handwritten additions on the versos) heavily annotated by James Ivory and including a few of his storyboard sketches throughout. Title page is dated "Third Draft May, 1995;" pages throughout include the note "Page Retyped 14.11.95," etc.
Location of creation inferred from wrapper and from shooting location of the film.
Laid (formerly post-bound) in blue wrappers, upper cover stamped "Surviving Picasso" and with the address for Studio Duplicating Service.
Surviving Picasso was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala based on the book Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by Arianna Huffington; the film was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant for Merchant Ivory Productions; it was released in the United States in September 1996.
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.