BIB_ID
454868
Accession number
MA 23840.1231
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 27 x 18.4 cm + envelope
Notes
Date from postmark and perpetual calendar.
Written in purple ink on Sunset Marquis letterhead.
Envelope addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, India, and postmarked January 30, 1974.
"Sides" are condensed sections of a film script for used shooting on a particular day; or, in the case of those used in auditions, an entirely original scene using the same characters.
Written in purple ink on Sunset Marquis letterhead.
Envelope addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, India, and postmarked January 30, 1974.
"Sides" are condensed sections of a film script for used shooting on a particular day; or, in the case of those used in auditions, an entirely original scene using the same characters.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Enclosing a copy of the sides-- written by Walter Marks-- that they have been using to audition actresses for the role of Queenie, and asking for her opinion on them-- "Would you say, on reading it, that it's hopeless, or he is hopeless?"; elaborating on how depressing he's finding the casting process; noting, however, that they've found "a superb Black [a.k.a. Dale Sword]" in Perry King, who played the lead opposite Shirley MacLaine in Waris Hussein's American film ["The Possession of Joel Delaney" (1972)]; describing the "clientele of actors and rock musicians" in the hotel he's staying in.
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