Jane Austen in Manhattan

Jane Austen in Manhattan

Directed by	James Ivory
Produced by	Ismail Merchant
Written by	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Libretto "Sir Charles Grandison" by Jane Austen & Samuel Richardson, based on a play "Sir Charles Grandison, or The Happy Man" by Jane Austen)
Starring	Anne Baxter Robert Powell Michael Wager Sean Young Charles McCaughan Tim Choate
Music by	Richard Robbins (arranged from Mozart's works) Katrina Hodiak (songs)
Cinematography	Ernest Vincze, Larry Pizer (opera sequence)
Edited by	David E. McKenna
Release dates	1980
Running time	111 min.
Language	English

Jane Austen in Manhattan is a Merchant Ivory Film made for LWT in 1980, but released for theatrical in UK and USA. It was the last film appearance of Anne Baxter and the début film of Sean Young.

The film concerns competing theatrical productions in present-day New York, of a recently discovered early Austen work.

Cast

Starring

Anne Baxter - Lilliana Zorska
Robert Powell - Pierre
Michael Wager - George Midash
Tim Choate - Jamie
John Guerrasio - Gregory
Katrina Hodiak - Katya
Kurt Johnson - Victor Charlton
Philip Lenkowsky - Fritz
Charles McCaughan - Billie
Nancy New - Jenny
Sean Young - Ariadne Charlton
Iman - Sufi Leader

External links

Merchant Ivory Productions

Films

1960s	The Householder (1963) Shakespeare Wallah (1965) The Guru (1969) The Night of Counting the Years (1969)

1970s	Bombay Talkie (1970) Savages (1972) The Wild Party (1975) Autobiography of a Princess (1975) Roseland (1977) Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978) The Five Forty-Eight (1978) The Europeans (1979)

1980s	Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980) Quartet (1981) The Courtesans of Bombay (1983) Heat and Dust (1983) The Bostonians (1984) A Room with a View (1985) Maurice (1987) The Deceivers (1988) The Perfect Murder (1988) Slaves of New York (1989)

1990s	Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990) The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991) Howards End (1992) The Remains of the Day (1993) In Custody (1994) Feast of July (1995) Jefferson in Paris (1995) The Proprietor (1996) Surviving Picasso (1996) Side Streets (1998) A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1999) Cotton Mary (1999)

2000s	The Golden Bowl (2001) The Mystic Masseur (2002) Le Divorce (2003) Heights (2004) The White Countess (2005) The City of Your Final Destination (2007) Before the Rains (2008)

Collaborators and artists

James Ivory Ismail Merchant Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Madhur Jaffrey Saeed Jaffrey Shashi Kapoor Jennifer Kendal Aparna Sen Leela Naidu Tony Pierce-Roberts Richard Robbins Greta Scacchi Helena Bonham Carter Emma Thompson Rupert Graves Hugh Grant James Wilby Simon Callow Anthony Hopkins Glenn Close Uma Thurman Vanessa Redgrave Natasha Richardson Ralph Fiennes

Film portal

Films directed by James Ivory

The Householder (1963)
The Delhi Way (1964)
Shakespeare Wallah (1965)
The Guru (1969)
Bombay Talkie (1970)
Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization (1972)
Savages (1972)
Autobiography of a Princess (1975)
The Wild Party (1975)
Roseland (1977)
Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978)
The Five Forty-Eight (1978)
The Europeans (1979)
Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980)
Quartet (1981)
Heat and Dust (1983)
The Bostonians (1984)
A Room with a View (1985)
Maurice (1987)
Slaves of New York (1989)
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
Howards End (1992)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
Lumière and Company (1995)
Surviving Picasso (1996)
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1999)
The Golden Bowl (2001)
Le Divorce (2003)
The White Countess (2005)
The City of Your Final Destination (2007)

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