A soldier's daughter never cries : typescript of a screenplay / based on the novel by Kaylie Jones ; screenplay by James Ivory and Erin Uday.

Small script of approximately 107 leaves (typed on the rectos and many with handwritten additions on the versos) heavily annotated by James Ivory throughout. Title page includes typed notes: "Third Draft: June 4, 1997" and address for Merchant Ivory Productions in Paris. Title page credits James Ivory and Erin Uday; Erin Uday was a pseudonym used by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (see Robert Emmet Long, James Ivory in Conversation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), p. 304). With several small prints from the film adhered to the versos of script pages, and with additional prints enclosed in a clear plastic envelope laid in at end.
With a note in James Ivory's hand adhered to the upper cover: "A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries."
The screenplay for A Soldier's daughter never cries was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory based on the novel of the same title by Kaylie Jones. The film was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant for Merchant Ivory Productions; it was released in the United States in September 1998.
Part of a collection of film director James Ivory's heavily annotated shooting scripts, editing notebooks, and small scripts. Each of the thirty-one films he directed for Merchant Ivory Productions is represented in the collection, beginning with the production company's first film, The Householder (1963), and including, among others, The Europeans (1979), A Room with A View (1985), Howards End (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993), The Golden Bowl (2000), and The City of Your Final Destination (2010). The collection also includes two films directed by Ivory's partner, Ismail Merchant (In Custody (1994) and The Mystic Masseur (2002)). Items in the collection have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.