File - 'PAVLOVA Men' - File labelled 'Pavlova Men' containing:
- letter to Michael Powell from Neil [?] in Rome, who agrees to take part in the project and requires $400 per week 8 July 1976
- telegram to MLP from Neil [?] confirming his terms
- handwritten letter to MLP from Neil [?] 'I'm delighted about the film, do hope by now the contract has been signed. I'm sure you'll do a beautiful job and I'm so happy for you that you will be back to music and dance and exotic characters'
dated simply 'Saturday 10th'
- letter to Michael Powell from Eric L,Epine Smith 'If you have not yet fixed your production supervisor - that is of course if you are going to have one, I wqould like you to meet and consider Peter Manley who is at present on The PRINCE AND THE PAUPER which is being filmed in Hungary'
10 August 1976
- CV of Peter Manley - - MLP-1-1-81-2-2-5
Pavlova - A Woman For All Time / Anna Pavlova - Historical biopic [film possibly shown in parts?] Based on the life of the legendary Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. Pavlova became an internationally regarded ballerina after her performances in 1909 with the Diaghilev's Ballet in Paris and in London and eventually formed her own troupe. She made a successful world tour together with Viktor d'Andre, who was her husband and manager.
Written & directed by Emil Lotianou; executive producers: Frixos Constantine; Serafim Karalexis; Michael Powell [Powell was also western version supervisor] ; Erik Waisberg
cast: Galina Belyaeva [Pavlova], Lina Buldakova [Pavolova as a child], Sergey Shakurov [Mikael Fokine] , Vsevolod Larionov [Sergei Diaghilev], James Fox [Victor D'Andre], Jacques Debary [Saint-Sans]
The papers include a huge number of script drafts at all stage of development. Powell was responsible for the English version of the Russian script and it seems to have gone through many different processes. Where possible the scripts have been arranged chronologically, but for some which are undated it is not possible to establish where exactly they were in the development of the finished script. Powell's involvement in the project lasted for six years, with numerous re-writes. - - MLP-1-1-81
Pre-production file - Pre-production file containing:
- handwritten list of scenes / sequences
- revised production memorandum from Erwin Hillier June 1978 detailing the work to be carried out by Soviet and UK crew over a fifteen week period including locations
- photocopy of trade advertisment for the Panaglide loating camera systemm no date c. 1970s
- budget summary with note 'the attached budget has been prepared based on the inmformation provided by the producers and via them by the dierctor. The impression given is that the filming in the USSR is to be on a grand scale' August 1078 - - MLP-1-1-81-2-2-2
Recce to Moscow - photographs and invoices - pre-production file labelled '1st visit to Moscow' including:
- black and white photographs featuring Erwin Hillier [and unidentified woman] standing in front of a monumnet / building
- small black & white photograph
- Michael Powell standing in the square and on it is wrtten 'Kremlin - huh?' April 1976
- - restauurant / hotel bills ? [in Russian] c. 1982 - - MLP-1-1-81-2-2-4
Ephemera: publicity - Pavlova - A Woman for all Time [Pressbook - small] - - PBS-254868
Script - PAVLOVA - A WOMAN FOR ALL TIME - Script type: Shooting Script - Script date: nd - - SCR-19873
Script - Screenplay - 1st draft [Manuscript] - Script with handwritten title page by Michael Powell 'Anna Pavlova Shooting Script (1st Draft) August 1976. Propert of Erwin Hillier Productions, 7 Baronsmede, Ealing - London W.5'first draft' . The second page is on lined paper with draft credits
'An Erwin Hillier Production of Anna Pavlova with the collaboration of the Bolshoi Ballet. Choreographer Yori Grogorovitch; Screenplay by Michael Powell and Y. Nikolin based on a story outline by Erwin Hillier...a Co-Production with Sovin Film'
A completley handwritten draft [no page numbers]
Please note: this script has been placed into two Timecare boxes - - MLP-1-1-81-1-2
Script - Shooting script - Erwin Hillier - Shooting script, typescript, writer unknown from an envelope marked that it had come from Erwin Hillier, some brief annotation in Michael Powell's hand. Page 1 begins with the death of Pavlova in the Hague, Holland in 1931. Consisting of 94 pages the script's page order has been rearranged [presumably by Powell as he tried to shape the narrative from this pre- existing script?]
July 1976 - - MLP-1-1-81-1-1
Script - Shooting script - 'Second draft' - Shooting script partially typewritten, part manuscript in Michael Powell's handwriting the title page reads
'Erwin Hillier's Production of ANNA PAVLOVA Shooting Script (Second draft 14 September 1976) by Michael Powell from an original story by Yuri Nikolin. The script was originally packaged in a brown envelope [retained] on which is written 'MS Script Pav 3'. Also included with the script are a breakdown [again handwritten by Powell] ; a typescript list 'Estimated timing of 1st draft shooting script dated 1 August 1976 and a handwritten list of characters, no date - - MLP-1-1-81-1-3