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Black Narcissus is a 1947 British psychological drama film jointly written, directed and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the 1939 novel by Rumer Godden. It stars Deborah Kerr , Sabu , David Farrar , and Flora Robson , and features Esmond Knight , Jean Simmons , and Kathleen Byron .
Black Narcissus, a 2020 television adaptation of the novel starring Gemma Arterton as Sister Clodagh, Alessandro Nivola as Mr. Dean and Aisling Franciosi as Sister Ruth. A BBC radio adaptation was also broadcast in 2008. [7]
She was cast in several films of the Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger partnership: as an angel in A Matter of Life and Death (1946), the disturbed Sister Ruth in Black Narcissus (1947, for which she was nominated for Best Actress by the New York Film Critics' Circle) and in The Small Back Room (1949).
Miniseries premieres on FX, Nov. 23.
Twenty years later, Sister Clodagh (Gemma Arterton, Lost in Austen) is the youngest sister superior in the religious order of St. Faith. The series, which is based on Rumer Godden’s 1939 novel ...
Black Narcissus is a drama television serial, based on the 1939 novel by Rumer Godden. The series features one of the final performances of Diana Rigg , who died in September 2020. The drama premiered on November 23, 2020, on FX in the US, [ 2 ] and on December 27, 2020, on BBC One in the UK.
Deborah Jane Trimmer [1] was born on 30 September 1921 in Hillhead, Glasgow, [3] the only daughter of Kathleen Rose (née Smale) and Capt. Arthur Charles Kerr Trimmer, a World War I veteran and pilot who lost a leg at the Battle of the Somme and later became a naval architect and civil engineer.
Margaret Rumer Godden OBE (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998 [1]) was a British author of more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books. Nine of her works have been made into films, [2] most notably Black Narcissus in 1947 and The River in 1951.