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  • Director: James Ivory
  • AMG Rating: star
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Movie Type: Satire
  • Themes: Teachers and Students
  • Main Cast: Anne Baxter, Robert Powell, Sean Young, Kurt Johnson, Katrina Hodiak
  • Release Year: 1980
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 108 minutes

Plot

The Ismail Merchant-James Ivory team generated this account of a pair of teachers battling for the rights to produce an unpublished Jane Austen play. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

Cast

Tim Choate - Jamie; Nancy New - Jenny; Charles McCaughan - Billy; John Guerrasio - Gregory; Michael Wager - George Midash; Bernard Barrow - Mr. Polson; David Evitts; Philip Lenkowsky - Fritz; Lee Doyle - Jarvis

Credit

Jenny Beavan - Costume Designer, James Ivory - Director, David McKenna - Editor, Richard Robbins - Composer (Music Score), Ernest Vincze - Cinematographer, Ismail Merchant - Producer, Michael Yeargan - Set Designer, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Screenwriter, Ruth Prawer - Screenwriter
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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)
Editing by David E. McKenna
Release date(s) 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. Last theatrical film of Anne Baxter and debut film of Sean Young.

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Crew

Cast

Starring

Rest of cast

  • Bernard Barrow - Mr. Polson
  • Lee Doyle - Mr. Jarvis
  • Bella Jarett - Miss Klein
  • Naomi Riordan - Mrs. Polson
  • David Redden - Auctioneer
  • Gael Hammer - Unsuccessful Bidders
  • Peter McPherson - Unsuccessful Bidders
  • John Boyle, Tim Burke - Chair Carriers
  • Iman - Sufi Leader
  • Brenda Holmes, Michon Peacock, Christina Stolberg - Dancers
  • Michael Shawn - Choreographer
  • Susan Hovey - Marianne
  • Sarallen - Fairbanks
  • Jacquelyn Roberts - Mis Auberry
  • Sandra Seacat - Thrift-Shop Lady
  • James Riatt - Pianist
  • Wayne Tuthill - Clergyman's Clerk

Opera Singers

  • Jane Bryden - Mezzo-soprano
  • Joyce Andrews - Soprano
  • Frank Hoffmeister - Tenor
  • David Evitts - Bass

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Films by Merchant Ivory Productions
1960s
The Householder (1963)  · Shakespeare Wallah (1965)  · The Guru (1969)
1970s
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)

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