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Helena Bonham Carter and Julian Sands in period costume, with Bonham Carter wearing a white lace dress and hat, posing closely together outdoors in A Room with a View. Helena Bonham Carter, Emma Thompson, and Anthony Hopkins in period costumes stand outdoors on grass in a scene from the film Howard's End.
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Merchant and Ivory

director–producer team
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Merchant and Ivory, producer-director team known for their richly textured cinematography and ability to evoke brilliant performances from some of the world’s finest actors. Producer Ismail (Noormohamed) Merchant (b. December 25, 1936, Bombay [now Mumbai], India—d. May 25, 2005, London, England) and director James (Francis) Ivory (b. June 7, 1928, Berkeley, California, U.S.) produced a string of impressive low-budget adaptations of complex novels by such authors as Henry James, E.M. Forster, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Merchant...

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