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The fall of Sister Ruth: why Black Narcissus ruined Kathleen Byron

Kathleen Byron in Black Narcissus
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In a monastery halfway up the Himalayas, in the summer of 1946, a young Englishwoman pulled a gun on her married lover.
“It was a revolver, a big one, US army issue, and it was loaded,” Black Narcissus director Michael Powell would later write of his snow-capped showdown with paramour Kathleen Byron. “A naked woman and a loaded gun are persuasive objects, and I have always thought that I deserved congratulations for talking myself out of that one.”
The story may not be quite as scandalous as it initially sounds. Firstly, while Black Narcissus was set in craggier reaches of British India, it was actually filmed at Pinewood Studios, and at the West Sussex address of an Indian army retiree (whose garden contained geographically appropriate flora). And it is unclear whether the firearm was aimed at Powell during the shoot or afterwards. ....

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ALISON BOSHOFF says the BBC's erotically charged remake of Black Narcissus is winning rave reviews

BBC One s erotically charged TV adaptation of Black Narcissus, which stars Bond girl Gemma Arterton as Sister Clodagh and newcomer Aisling Franciosi as Sister Ruth, has the critics raving.
The story of nuns with buried passions in an isolated palace-turned-convent high in the Himalayas a palace that was once the home of concubines is brilliantly conjured.
Its writer, Amanda Coe, who was behind the gripping TV adaptation of Apple Tree Yard, has described the drama as The Shining with nuns after the Stanley Kubrick horror film.
BBC One s erotically charged TV adaptation of Black Narcissus comes with the sensual pedigree of the original 1947 film starring Kathleen Byron (pictured) ....

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