Merchant Ivory Collection Jane Austen In Manhattan - Coffret DVD - . Director James Ivory brings the intrigue and guile of rival theatre companies to life in JANE AUSTEN IN MANHATTAN. At Sotheby. Æs auction house in New York, a theatre producer and an ambitious off- Broadway director buy an obscure childhood play written by Jane Austen. Robert Powell stars as Pierre, an avant- garde director who becomes engaged in a heated rivalry with his former mentor and lover, traditionalist director Lilianna Zorska (Anne Baxter). While competing to produce different versions of the Austen play, the two also compete for the loyalties of a young actress, Ariadne (Sean Young in her first screen role). The actual Jane Austen manuscript was sold at Sotheby. Æs in London, and London Weekend Television became interested in producing the play- -without reading it first. Merchant Ivory Productions, which had produced a film for LWTÆs THE SOUTH BANK SHOW two years earlier (HULLABALOO OVER GEORGIE AND BONNIEÆS PICTURES), also became interested in filming the sight- unseen manuscript. However, after reading the work, screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala realized that the Austen play was not developed enough to be a film and instead used the acquisition of the text as the seed of an idea that ultimately became JANE AUSTEN IN MANHATTAN. Buy Jane Austen In Manhattan (Merchant Ivory Collection) on DVD-Video, watch trailer and view special features. Merchant Ivory Productions; Industry. Jane Austen in Manhattan. 1983: The Courtesans of Bombay: Ismail Merchant, James Ivory and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Jane Austen in Manhattan. [James Ivory; Anne Baxter; Robert Powell; Michael Wager; Sean Young; Tim Choate; Ernest Vincze. Merchant Ivory collection. Responsibility. I'm a Jane Austen freak and devoted to Merchant Ivory movies. This one is early and quirky. It's about art and acting. It's about two quite different ways to bring. Rival theater companies compete to produce their own unique versions of Jane Austen's childhood play, Sir Charles Grandison, in this delightful film from Merchant. . Buy The Merchant Ivory Collection. Roseland / Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures / The Europeans / Jane Austen in Manhattan / Quartet / Heat.
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