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Australia's Shirley Maycock, onetime swimming double for British Star Jean Simmons (Great Expectations, Black Narcissus), arrived in London with a picture contract of her own, promptly made a memorable picture with Actress Simmons...
...Black Narcissus (in color) carried off three minor prizes apiece (for art, set and camera direction); a special Oscar went to Italy's magnificent Shoeshine...
...often that the producers of a motion picture dare to probe mercilessly into the validity of assumed Christian concepts, and therefore it is hardly surprising that although "Black Narcissus" finds a deeply religious answer to its own questions, American religious groups have unanimously blasted it. The picture places a group of Anglican nuns in a remote part of the Himalayas, where Western morality and religion simply do not exist. Their convent has once been a local emperor's harem, their patron is the conscience-stricken emperor, who pays his subjects to go the convent, and the nuns are a group...
...Actors. For acting honors, Hollywood ran second to the British. The Manhattan critics called Deborah Kerr the year's best actress-for her work in Britain's The Adventuress and Black Narcissus (no mention was made of Miss Kerr in MGM's The Hucksters). William Powell was called best actor for Life with Father and The Senator Was Indiscreet. The National Board of Review picked Britain's Michael Redgrave for his playing of Orin in Dudley Nichols' Hollywood-made production of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra; and Britain's Celia...
...that extends the kingdom of the nightingale, diffuses everywhere the secret perfume of the rose. The home where this man's mother lived was distinguished from all the other red-brick and stucco houses in a shabby suburban street by the wealth of flowering bulbs, jonquil packed beside narcissus, crocus beside grape hyacinth, which crammed the bow-windows of the ground floor flat. . . . When the spring came, they made a truly German window. Loving this lovely Germany, her son joined the SS, which bled and died that there should be camps where starved prisoners fell on the bodies...