March 13, 1992 –
Merchant Ivory Productions release of the adaptation of E. M. Forster’s novel, Howards End, directed by James Ivory, from a screenplay written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and starring Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter, Vanessa Redgrave, Jemma Redgrave and Prunella Scales, opened in the US on this date.
The country house used as the location for Howards End is over twice as large as seen from the front and partial side views used in this movie. It is H-shaped with a large back portion, into which its owners moved during filming, while the front portion was emptied and refinished. (The landscaping was also redone, with flowers and plants truer to the story’s period.) The house is owned by friends of production designer Luciana Arrighi, and it occurred to her it would make a good stand-in for Howards End, while she was a houseguest there.
The Haus of Dcaligari 