Question: Information: - Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He wrote and recorded the songs "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" and "Help Me Make It Through the Night". Kristofferson composed his own songs and collaborated with Nashville songwriters such as Shel Silverstein. In 1985, Kristofferson joined fellow country artists Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash in forming the country music supergroup The Highwaymen. In 2004, Kristofferson was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He is also known for his starring roles in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" and "A Star Is Born", the latter for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. - "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" is a song written by Kris Kristofferson that was popularized in 1969 by Ray Stevens before becoming a number one hit for Johnny Cash. - Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta "Leelee" Sobieski (born June 10, 1983) is an American film and television actress. Sobieski achieved recognition in her mid-teens for her performance in the 1998 film "Deep Impact" and as the daughter of a costume store owner in "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999). She received an Emmy nomination for the 1999 TV movie "Joan of Arc", and two Golden Globe nominations for "Joan of Arc" and the 2001 TV movie "Uprising". - Merchant Ivory Productions is a film company founded in 1961 by producer Ismail Merchant (d. 2005) and director James Ivory. Their films were for the most part produced by Merchant, directed by Ivory, and 23 (of the 44 total films) were scripted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (d. 2013) in some capacity, all but two of those with solo credit. The films were often based upon novels or short stories, particularly the work of Henry James, E. M. Forster, and two novels by Jhabvala herself. - Kaylie Jones (born 5 August 1960 in Paris, France) is an American writer, memoirist and novelist. - "Me and Bobby McGee" is a song written by Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster, originally performed by Roger Miller. Others performed the song later, including the Grateful Dead, Kristofferson himself, Kenny Rogers and The First Edition and most famously by Janis Joplin, whose posthumously released version topped the U.S. singles chart in 1971, making the song the second posthumously released No. 1 single in U.S. chart history after "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding. "Billboard" ranked Joplin's version as the No. 11 song for 1971. - Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 erotic drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick. Based on Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella "Traumnovelle" ("Dream Story"), the story is transferred from early 20th century Vienna to 1990s New York City. The film follows the sexually charged adventures of Dr. Bill Harford, who is shocked when his wife, Alice, reveals that she had contemplated an affair a year earlier. He embarks on a night-long adventure, during which he infiltrates a massive masked orgy of an unnamed secret society. - A Soldier 's Daughter Never Cries is a 1998 drama film directed by James Ivory and written by James Ivory and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala . It stars Kris Kristofferson , Barbara Hershey , Leelee Sobieski and Jesse Bradford . The film is a fictionalized account of the family life of writer James Jones and is based on Kaylie Jones ' novel by the same name . Structured as a novel , the film is divided into three segments each named after a different protagonist . The plot follows an expatriate American family living in Paris during the 1960s and 1970s until their return and adjustment to life in New England , seen from the point of view of the daughter . - Paris (French: ) is the capital and most populous city of France. It has an area of and a population in 2013 of 2,229,621 within its administrative limits. The city is both a commune and department, and forms the centre and headquarters of the Ile-de-France, or Paris Region, which has an area of and a population in 2014 of 12,005,077, comprising 18.2 percent of the population of France. - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE (7 May 19273 April 2013) was a German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant. - "Help Me Make It Through The Night" is a country music ballad written and composed by Kris Kristofferson and released on his 1970 album "Kristofferson." - Ismail Merchant (25 December 1936 25 May 2005) was an Indian-born film producer and director. He worked for many years in collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included director (and Merchant's longtime professional and domestic partner) James Ivory as well as screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Their films won six Academy Awards. - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a 1974 American comedy drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Robert Getchell. It stars Ellen Burstyn as a widow who travels with her preteen son across the Southwestern United States in search of a better life, along with Alfred Lutter as her son and Kris Kristofferson as a man they meet along the way. This is Martin Scorsese's fourth film. The film co-stars Billy "Green" Bush, Diane Ladd, Valerie Curtin, Lelia Goldoni, Lane Bradbury, Vic Tayback, Jodie Foster (in one of her earliest film appearances), and Harvey Keitel. Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'producer' with the subject 'a soldier's daughter never cries '. Choices: - billboard - grateful dead - harvey keitel - ismail merchant - kris kristofferson - martin scorsese - paris - stanley kubrick - willie nelson
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ismail merchant