BIB_ID
455230
Accession number
MA 23840.1555a
Creator
Merchant, Ismail, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.9 x 21.6 cm
Notes
The last paragraph and a half are handwritten.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
announcing "The British Film Producers [Association] have finally accepted the fact that the Europeans is the British entry at the [C]annes Film Festival"; telling her Ivory is currently meeting with Gaumont about the film, and he is planning a large dinner party at their own villa tonight; describing the villa's environs; describing some confusion with an attendee named Bernice Richards; enumerating all the guests at their villa-- "Humphrey, Connie, Michele, Nick Young, and tonight Roger Wingate and Jennifer Wingate"; telling her he loved "Manhattan," and liked seeing Wally in it; noting that "[t]he scandal of the festival is the absence of Satyajit Ray, who refused to fly coach; saying he is sorry to have missed her birthday celebration-- "Jim said you all got drunk."
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