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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 .
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).
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]
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] CBE (30 September 1921 – 16 October 2007), known professionally as Deborah Kerr (/ k ɑːr /), was a British actress.She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first person from Scotland to be nominated for any acting Oscar.
Dr. Ruth Westheimer appeared on several television programs and authored nearly 50 books before her death at age 96
On Oct. 29, 1977, my younger sister, Carlotta Hartness, and her classmate, Tommy Taylor, were randomly murdered by three men. It was all over the TV news and in the newspapers. Murders were rare ...
After the Second World War, demonstrating her range, she appeared in Holiday Camp (1947), the first of a series of films which featured the very ordinary Huggett family; as Sister Philippa in Black Narcissus (1947); as a magistrate in Good-Time Girl (1948); as a prospective Labour MP in Frieda (1947); and in the costume melodrama Saraband for ...