BIB_ID
453623
Accession number
MA 23840.925
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2021.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.8 x 14.5 cm folded (22.8 x 29 cm unfolded) + envelope
Notes
Year from James Ivory's note on envelope.
Envelope stamped, addressed to Mr. James Ivory, 400 East 52nd St. (Apt. 12-G), New York 10022, N.Y. U.S.A., postmark illegible
The film being discussed in this letter is "Bombay Talkie" (1970). Ivory's interview is an imaginary interview with himself that he wrote to answer his Indian critics; the piece finally appeared in the Hindustan Times as "An Interview with James Ivory" on April 25, 1971.
Envelope stamped, addressed to Mr. James Ivory, 400 East 52nd St. (Apt. 12-G), New York 10022, N.Y. U.S.A., postmark illegible
The film being discussed in this letter is "Bombay Talkie" (1970). Ivory's interview is an imaginary interview with himself that he wrote to answer his Indian critics; the piece finally appeared in the Hindustan Times as "An Interview with James Ivory" on April 25, 1971.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Enclosing a recent letter from Jennifer Kendal describing the film's reception in Bombay; voicing her conviction that Jennifer is being "unneccesarily gloomy"; observing that all MIP films receive their negative reviews first, and only later their run are the positive voices heard; explaining Jennifer's reference to Kushwant Singh-- it turns out that Singh isn't giving them the cover of the magazine as he'd promised [see MA 23840.918], and he isn't publishing Ivory's interview either; telling him that the film should open in Delhi on April 30, and around the same time in Calcutta; saying she isn't looking forward to it, but happily, "unlike poor Sashi and Jennifer, I can withdraw completely..."
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