September 15, 2009 (XIX:3) Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger BLACK NARCISSUS (1947, 100 min) Produced, directed and written by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Based on a novel by Rumer Godden Original Music by Brian Easdale Cinematography by Jack Cardiff Film Editing by Reginald Mills Production Design by Alfred Junge Costume Design by Hein Heckroth Deborah Kerr...Sister Clodagh Flora Robson...Sister Philippa Jean Simmons...Kanchi David Farrar...Mr. Dean Sabu...The Young General Esmond Knight...The Old General Kathleen Byron...Sister Ruth Jenny Laird...Sister Honey Judith Furse...Sister Briony MICHAEL POWELL (30 September 1905, Bekesbourne, Kent, May Hallatt...Angu Ayah England, UK-- 19 February 1990, Avening, Gloucestershire, Nancy Roberts...Mother Dorothea England, UK, cancer). Return to the Edge of the World (1978), The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972), Age of Consent (1969), They're a Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color Weird Mob (1966), Herzog Blaubarts Burg/Bluebeard’s Castle (Alfred Junge) and Best Cinematography, Color (Jack Cardiff). (1963), The Queen's Guards (1961), Peeping Tom/Face of Fear/The Fotographer of Panic (1960), Luna de EMERIC PRESSBURGER (5 December 1902, Miskolc, Austria- miel/Honeymoon/Luna de miel/The Lovers of Teruel (1959), 49th Hungary-- 5 February 1988, Saxstead, Suffolk, England, UK, Parallel/The Invaders (1941), An Airman's Letter to His Mother bronchial pneumonia). The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972), They're (1941), The Thief of Bagdad/The Thief of Bagdad: An Arabian a Weird Mob (1966), Operation Crossbow (1965), Atlantic Fantasy in Technicolor (1940), Contraband/Blackout (1940), The Ferry/Sons of the Sea (1941), Spy for a Day (1940), The Spy in Lion Has Wings (1939) The Spy in Black/U-Boat 29 (1939), Smith Black/U-Boat 29 (1939), Parisian Life (1936), Mein Herz ruft nach (1939), The Edge of the World (1937), Something Always Happens dir/My Heart Calls You (1934), Incognito (1934), Une femme au (1934), Red Ensign/Strike! (1934), His Lordship (1932), C.O.D. Volant/A Woman at the Wheel (1933), A vén gazember/The Old (1932), Rynox (1932), My Friend the King (1932), Two Crowded Scoundrel (1932), Une jeune fille et un million/A Girl and a Million Hours (1931). Nominated for Oscar: Best Writing, Original (1932), Eine von uns/One of Us (1932), Das schöne Screenplay- One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1943). Abenteuer/Beautiful Adventure (1932), Lumpenkavaliere/ Wiener Lumpenkavaliere (1932), Dann schon lieber Lebertran/I’d Rather PRESSBURGER/POWELL [jointly produced/directed/wrote] 'I Know Have Cod Liver Oil (1931), Das Ekel/The Scoundrel (1931), Where I'm Going!' (1945), A Canterbury Tale (1944), A Matter of Abschied/Farewell (1930), Die große Sehnsucht/The Great Desire Life and Death/Stairway to Heaven (1946), Black Narcissus (1947), (1930). Won Oscar: Best Writing, Original Story- 49th Parallel Gone to Earth (1950), Ill Met by Moonlight/Intelligence (1943); Nominated Oscar: Best Writing, Screenplay- 49th Parallel Service/Night Ambush (1957), Oh... Rosalinda!!/Fledermaus ’55 (1943); Nominated Oscar: Best Writing, Original Screenplay- One (1955), One of Our Aircraft Is Missing /One of Our Aircraft Is of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1943); Nominated Oscar: Best Writing, Missing/ The Story of - - - - - - one of Our Aircraft Is Missing Motion Picture Story- The Red Shoes (1949). (1942), The Battle of the River Plate/Graf Spee/Pursuit of the Graf Clayton—THE INNOCENTS—2 Spee (1956), The Elusive Pimpernel/The Fighting Pimpernel Five-O" (1 episode, 1977), Rough Night in Jericho (1967), Divorce (1950), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp/Colonel Blimp/The American Style (1967), Mister Buddwing (1966), All the Way Home Adventures of Colonel Blimp (1943), The Red Shoes (1948), The (1963), The Grass Is Greener (1960), Spartacus (1960), Elmer Small Back Room/Hour of Glory (1949), Tales of Hoffmann/ Gantry (1960), The Big Country (1958), Guys and Dolls (1955/I), Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann (1951), Volunteer Desirée (1954), The Egyptian (1954), The Robe (1953), Androcles (1943), The Wild Heart/Gypsy Blood (1952). and the Lion (1952), The Blue Lagoon (1949), Hamlet (1948), Black Narcissus (1947), Great Expectations (1946), Caesar and DEBORAH KERR (30 September 1921, Cleopatra (1945). Helensburgh, Scotland, UK-- 16 Nominated Oscar: Best Actress in a Supporting Role- Hamlet October 2007, Botesdale, Suffolk, (1949); Nominated Oscar: Best Actress in a Leading Role- Happy England, UK, complications from Ending (1970). Parkinson's disease) The Assam Garden (1985), Witness for the DAVID FARRAR (21 August 1908, Forest Gate, London, England, Prosecution (1982), The Arrangement UK-- 31 August 1995, South Africa) The 300 Spartans (1962), (1969), The Gypsy Moths (1969), "The Dick Powell Show" (1 episode, 1962), Solomon and Sheba Casino Royale (1967), The Night of the (1959), Watusi (1959), The Son of Robin Hood (1958), I Accuse! Iguana (1964), The Chalk Garden (1958), The Battle of the River Plate (1956), Lost (1956), Escape to (1964), The Innocents (1961), The Burma (1955), Lilacs in the Spring (1954), The Wild Heart (1952), Naked Edge (1961), The Grass Is The Golden Horde (1951), Night Without Stars (1951), Gone to Greener (1960), The Sundowners Earth (1950), The Small Back Room (1949), Mr. Perrin and Mr. (1960), Beloved Infidel (1959), The Traill (1948), Frieda (1947), Black Narcissus (1947), Lisbon Story Journey (1959), Separate Tables (1958), Bonjour tristesse (1958), (1946), The Trojan Brothers (1946), The Night Invader (1943), The An Affair to Remember (1957), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Dark Tower (1943), Danny Boy (1941), A Royal Divorce (1938), Tea and Sympathy (1956), The King and I (1956), The Proud and Silver Top (1938), Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror/The Profane (1956), The End of the Affair (1955), From Here to Hooded Terror (1938). Eternity (1953), Julius Caesar (1953), Young Bess (1953), The Prisoner of Zenda (1952), Quo Vadis (1951), King Solomon's SABU (27 January 1924, Karapur, Mysore, India-- 2 December Mines (1950), Edward, My Son (1949), If Winter Comes (1947), 1963, Chatsworth, California, USA, heart attack) A Tiger Walks The Hucksters (1947), Black Narcissus (1947), I See a Dark (1964), Rampage (1963), Sabu and the Magic Ring (1957), Jungle Stranger (1946), Perfect Strangers (1945), The Life and Death of Hell (1956), Buongiorno, elefante!/Hello Elephant (1952), Baghdad Colonel Blimp (1943), Major Barbara (1941). Won Oscar: (1952), Savage Drums (1951), Song of India (1949), Black Honorary Award (1994): “An artist of impeccable grace and beauty, Narcissus (1947), Tangier (1946), Cobra Woman (1944), White a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood Savage (1943), Arabian Nights (1942), Jungle Book (1942), The for perfection, discipline and elegance”; Nominated Oscar: Best Thief of Bagdad (1940), The Drum (1938), Elephant Boy (1937). Actress in a Leading Role- Edward, My Son (1950); Nominated Oscar: Best Actress in a Leading Role- From Here to Eternity KATHLEEN BYRON (11 January (1954); Nominated Oscar: Best Actress in a Leading Role- The 1921, London—18 January 2009, King and I (1957); Nominated Oscar: Best Actress in a Leading Middlesex, England) Appeared in Role- Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1958); Nominated Oscar: Best over 100 films and TV programs Actress in a Leading Role- Separate Tables (1959); Nominated and series, the last of which was Oscar: Best Actress in a Leading Role- The Sundowners (1961). “Perfect Strangers” (2001). Some of the others were "In a Land of FLORA ROBSON (28 March 1902, South Shields, Durham, England, Plenty" (3 episodes, 2001), UK—7 July 1984, Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK, cancer) "Casualty" (2 episodes, 1989- Clash of the Titans (1981), A Tale of Two Cities (1980), Les 1999), Saving Private Ryan (1998), miserables (1978), "Heidi" (4 episodes, 1974), Alice's Adventures in Les misérables (1998), Emma Wonderland (1972), The Beloved (1970), Eye of the Devil (1966), (1996), "Reilly: Ace of Spies" (1 "David Copperfield" (8 episodes, 1966), Those Magnificent Men in episode, 1983), From a Far Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Country (1981), The Elephant Man hours 11 minutes (1965), Young Cassidy (1965), 55 Days at Peking (1980), "Edward the Seventh" (3 episodes, 1975), Craze (1974), (1963), "BBC Sunday-Night Theatre" (1 episode, 1955), Romeo "The Golden Bowl" (6 episodes, 1972), "The Portrait of a Lady" (4 and Juliet (1954), Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948), Black episodes, 1968), Night of the Silvery Moon (1954), Young Bess Narcissus (1947), Caesar and Cleopatra (1945), Saratoga Trunk (1953), The Gambler and the Lady (1952), Tom Brown's (1945), The Sea Hawk (1940), We Are Not Alone (1939), Wuthering Schooldays (1951), Scarlet Thread (1951), The Small Back Room Heights (1939), Fire Over England (1937), I, Claudius (1937), (1949), Black Narcissus (1947), A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Anna Christie (1936), A Gentleman of Paris (1931). Nominated The Silver Fleet (1943), The Young Mr. Pitt (1942), Climbing High Oscar: Best Actress in a Supporting Role- Saratoga Trunk (1947). (1938; uncredited: she is the model on sofa after cream pie fight, glaring at Max). JEAN SIMMONS (31 January 1929, Crouch Hill, London, England, UK—) Shadows in the Sun (2009), Thru the Moebius Strip (2005), JACK CARDIFF (18 September 1914, Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, How to Make an American Quilt (1995), "Dark Shadows" (12 UK-- 22 April 2009, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK) The Tell- episodes, 1991),