Jefferson in Paris
Produced by Merchant-Ivory Productions and Touchstone Pictures, released 1995 by Buena Vista Pictures, 35mm widescreen color, Dolby Digital sound, 136 mins.
Production:
- Directed by James Ivory
- Written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Produced by Humbert Balsan, Paul Bradley, Ismail Merchant, Donald Rosenfeld
- Original music by Richard Robbins
- Non-original music by Claude Balbastre
- Cinematography by Pierre Lhomme
- Film Editing by Isabelle Lorente, Andrew Marcus
- Production Design by Guy-Claude François
- Art Direction by Thierry François
- Set Decoration by Bernadette Saint Loubert
- Costume Design by Jenny Beavan, John Bright
- Sound by Robert Gavin, Laurent Lafran
Cast:
- Nick Nolte as Thomas Jefferson
- Gwyneth Paltrow as Patsy Jefferson
- Estelle Eonnet as Polly Jefferson
- Thandie Newton as Sally Hemings
- James Earl Jones as Madison Hemings
- Beatrice Winde as Mary Hemings
- Seth Gilliam as James Hemings
- Todd Boyce as William Short
- Nigel Whitney as John Trumbull
- Nicolas Silberg as Monsieur Petit
- Greta Scacchi as Maria Cosway
- Simon Callow as Richard Cosway
- Lambert Wilson as Comte de Lafayette
- Elsa Zylberstein as Adrienne de Lafayette
- William Moseley as George Washington
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Filmnotes | revised 10/31/02 by Schoenherr