James Ivory

Ismail Merchant and James Ivory made their approach to RPJ (whose novel The Householder they wished to film) through a telephone call from a strange woman pretending to be her mother-in-law.

She lived on terms of close friendship with Ivory and with Merchant (who died in May 2005), but also with a social circle of German expatriates, most of them refugees.

The film did well at the box-office, received enthusiastic reviews, and won three Academy Awards (including one for best screen adaptation). It received wide coverage, including a piece in People magazine, which was...

This venture was triggered by the appearance on the market of Austen 's juvenile play Sir Charles Grandison, itself an adaptation from the novel by Samuel Richardson . London Weekend Television acquired an option...

RPJ moved from India to live in New York's East 50s; her film partners Ismail Merchant and James Ivory shared the apartment right below hers.

After Merchant's death, RPJ worked with James Ivory on another film adapted from prose fiction, The City of Your Final Destination, 2009, from a novel by Peter Cameron .

It was directed by James Ivory , who co-wrote the screenplay with Ruth Prawer Jhabvala .The producers were Ismail Merchant and Jean Pierre Mahot , and it was distributed by New World Pictures . It...

RPJ collaborated on this screenplay (her first not based on her own work, her second of any kind) with James Ivory . It was published in London this year, and in New York in 1973...

After this RPJ 's output of screenplays for Merchant-Ivory Productions was steadily maintained. She collaborated with James Ivory in the fairy-tale-style The Guru, 1969, and the intense and atmospheric Bombay Talkie, 1970. Her...

Notable among RPJ 's television scripts was the four-part London Weekend Television series adapted from Paul Scott 's The Raj Quartet in 1978; it was shown both on the wide screen and on tv, entitled...

James Ivory had first read the book at her behest. When working with James Ivory on screenplays adapted from books by other people, the system was for RPJ to use a copy of the book...

This was another book she had recommended to James Ivory .

RPJ co-wrote with James Ivory the script for the Merchant-Ivory film Le Divorce, based on a novel by Diane Johnson . It premiered in August 2003, and was the last film on which the...