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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 .
Sister Clodagh, the Sister Superior of the group, is ambitious but questions her capabilities. She presses on, sometimes clashing with Mr. Dean. Sister Ruth becomes increasingly emotionally unwell. The sisters often clash with Angu Ayah, the building's caretaker, as well as the local population.
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.
Miniseries premieres on FX, Nov. 23.
The protagonist Anne Peters is played by Kathleen Byron, who had become well known for her role as Sister Ruth in the 1947 film Black Narcissus. [2] In Life in Her Hands, her character becomes a nurse to assuage her guilt after her husband dies in a car accident in which she was driving and for which she blames herself. [7]
Jones, born in Arkabutla, Mississippi, in 1931, was the son of Broadway actor Robert Earl Jones and Ruth Connolly Jones. His father left the family after he was born, first pursuing a career as a ...
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).
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