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unusual facts about Merchant Ivory



New Ipswich, New Hampshire

The town's affluence would be expressed in fine architecture, an example of which is the Barrett House, used as a setting for the 1979 Merchant Ivory film of The Europeans by Henry James.

Nirad C. Chaudhuri

In 1972, he was the subject of a Merchant Ivory documentary, Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization.


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Karan Kapoor

The Merchant Ivory film, Shakespeare Wallah, was loosely based on the family, which starred his father and his aunt, actress Felicity Kendal.

Steuben Glass Works

The glass bowl in the Merchant Ivory film, The Golden Bowl (2000), was designed by Eric Hilton at Steuben Glass.

The Ambassadors

A television version of The Ambassadors was produced in 1977, with Paul Scofield as "Strether" and Lee Remick as "Maria Gostrey"; she later played "Eugenia" in the 1979 Merchant-Ivory cinema version of The Europeans.