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Editing notebook for the film A soldier's daughter never cries : autograph manuscript.

BIB_ID
414476
Accession number
MA 9301
Creator
Ivory, James, author.
Display Date
Claverack, New York, 1997-1999.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2017.
Description
1 item (approximately 75 leaves), bound ; 30.4 x 21.1 cm
Notes
Notebook kept by James Ivory while editing the film A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries. Notes, clippings and added material are laid in throughout.
With a note in James Ivory's hand adhered to upper cover: "A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries."
The screenplay for A Soldier's daughter never cries was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory based on the novel of the same title by Kaylie Jones. 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 1998.
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.