David Lean was also rapidly becoming a force in world cinema with Brief Encounter and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, and Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger would experience the best of their creative partnership with films like Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes.

Among the most significant films produced during this period were David Lean's Brief Encounter ( 1945 ) and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's thrillers Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ).

Memorable films from post-war England include David Lean's Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ), Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, the first non-American film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ) directed by Robert Hamer.

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After the 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 Goodtime Girl ( 1948 ); as a prospective Labour MP in Frieda ( 1947 ); and in costume melodrama, Saraband for Dead Lovers ( 1948 ).

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They worked together under the name of " The Archers " and produced a series of classic British films, notably 49th Parallel ( 1941 ), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946, also called Stairway to Heaven ), Black Narcissus ( 1947 ), The Red Shoes ( 1948 ), and The Tales of Hoffmann ( 1951 ).

Playing Ophelia in Olivier's Hamlet made her a star, although she was already well known for her work in other British films, including her first starring role in the film adaptation of Uncle Silas, and Black Narcissus ( both 1947 ).

He is best known for his series of film collaborations with Michael Powell, in a multiple-award-winning partnership known as The Archers and produced a series of classic British films, notably 49th Parallel ( 1941 ), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946, also called Stairway to Heaven ), Black Narcissus ( 1947 ), The Red Shoes ( 1948 ), and The Tales of Hoffmann ( 1951 ).

During the 1940s, Rank produced some of the finest films ever made in Great Britain, including: The Red Shoes, Hamlet, Henry V, A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus, The Rake's Progress, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and many more.

A loose collective of film makers was established under the banner of Independent Producers Ltd. employed some of Britain's greatest directors, such as Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger ( Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, I Know Where I'm Going!

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Song and album titles like Power To the People, In Pursuit of Blackness, and Black Narcissus reflected his growing political awareness and social consciousness, although the last album was named after the Powell and Pressburger film of 1947.

* 1976: Black Narcissus

In his commentary on The Criterion Collection DVD of Black Narcissus, Scorsese stated that Michael Powell's films influenced The King of Comedy in its conception of fantasy.

During this time she published her first best-seller, the 1939 novel, Black Narcissus.

* 1939 Black Narcissus, a story about the disorientation of European nuns in India ; the first of her books to be adapted for the screen, as the film of the same name in 1947 ; a radio adaptation was also broadcast in 2008.

*" The Black Narcissus " ( October 1942 )

Among their most notable successes are The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1947 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ).

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The finale of Black Narcissus and the celebrated ' ballet ' sequence of The Red Shoes were earlier forays to achieve his goal.

From 1969 to 1971, Wilson and Strickland collaborated with high school friends Peter Love of Louisville and Athens native Owen Scott, III in performing together at the four-member band Black Narcissus.

No writer's published work provided the basis for more film noirs of the classic period than Woolrich's: thirteen in all, including Black Angel ( 1946 ), Deadline at Dawn ( 1946 ), and Fear in the Night ( 1947 ).

* 1947 – The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short (" The Black Dahlia ") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.

* 1947 – Elizabeth " Betty " Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.

* 1947 – Charles " Bobo " Shaw, American drummer ( Black Artists Group and Human Arts Ensemble )

James made his first appearances in Night Beat and Black Memory ( 1947 ), both crime dramas.

* Sept. 18, 1947, Mystery in the Air Radio Program with Peter Lorre as the Protagonist in The Black Cat.

** Mark Clark, American Black Panther ( shot by police ) ( b. 1947 )

Assata Olugbala Shakur ( born July 16, 1947, as JoAnne Deborah Byron, married name Chesimard ) is an African-American activist and escaped convict who was a member of the Black Panther Party ( BPP ) and Black Liberation Army ( BLA ).

* MV Chinook, a car ferry built in 1947 and operated by Black Ball Lines between Victoria, British Columbia and Port Angeles, Washington from 1947 to 1954

## Adept's Gambit ( novella 1947, in Leiber's Night's Black Agents collection )

Hobson City is Alabama's first all-black city, according to The Progress and Achievements of the Negro in the Art of Self Government, a book published in 1947 by Ross Black, a white lawyer.

* Black Gold ( 1947 film ), directed by Phil Karlson and starring Anthony Quinn

Operational use from the airfield began in February 1947 when the 347th Fighter Group ( All Weather ) began operating P-61 Black Widow interceptor aircraft, which were used to provide air defense for Japan.

Giving Expressionist-affiliated filmmakers particularly free stylistic rein were Universal horror pictures such as Dracula ( 1931 ), The Mummy ( 1932 )— the former photographed and the latter directed by the Berlin-trained Karl Freund — and The Black Cat ( 1934 ), directed by Austrian émigré Edgar G. Ulmer.

1966 ); Crapsey, Adelaide: " Pierrot " ( c. 1914 ); Faulkner, William: Vision in Spring ( 1921 ); Ficke, Arthur Davison: " A Watteau Melody " ( 1913 ); Garrison, Theodosia: " Good-Bye, Pierrette " ( 1906 ), " When Pierrot Passes " ( before 1917 ); Griffith, William: Loves and Losses of Pierrot ( 1916 ), Three Poems: Pierrot, the Conjurer, Pierrot Dispossesed, The Stricken Pierrot ( 1923 ); Hughes, Langston: " A Black Pierrot " ( 1923 ), " Pierrot " ( 1926 ), " For Dead Mimes " ( 1926 ), " Heart " ( 1932 )— see " Goldweber " under External links below ; Loveman, Samuel: " In Pierrot's Garden " ( 1911 ; five poems ); Lowell, Amy: " Stravinsky's Three Pieces " ( 1915 ); Masters, Edgar Lee: " Poor Pierrot " ( 1918 ); Moore, Marianne: " To Pierrot Returning to His Orchid " ( c. 1910 ); Shelley, Melvin Geer: " Pierrot " ( 1940 ); Stevens, Wallace: " Pierrot " ( 1909, first pub.

Principally, by Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1313 – 1375 ), author of The Decameron ( 1353 )— one hundred novelle told by ten people, seven women and three men, fleeing the Black Death by escaping from Florence to the Fiesole hills, in 1348 ; and by the French Queen, Marguerite de Navarre ( 1492 – 1549 ), Marguerite de Valois, et.

African American Vernacular English ( AAVE )— recently called African American Language ( AAL ) also called African American English ; less precisely Black English, Black Vernacular, Black English Vernacular ( BEV ), or Black Vernacular English ( BVE )— is an African American variety ( dialect, ethnolect and sociolect ) of American English.

Each man plays a Hollywood archetype — self-absorbed multi-Oscar-winning Aussie method actor Kirk Lazarus ( Downey ), aging action hero desperately looking to reinvent himself as a serious actor ( Stiller ), and overweight heroin-addicted self-destructive comic best known for portraying multiple characters in a franchise of comedies about a family that farts in every film ( Black )— as they star in an extremely expensive Vietnam-era film called Tropic Thunder.

The peasant army was known as the Antonovtsi or " Blue Army ", as opposed to the " White Army " ( anti-communist army ), " Red Army " ( communist army ), " Green Army " ( armed peasant groups ) and " Black Army " ( anarchists of Ukraine and Russia )— all taking part in the Civil War.

* UC Irvine and California State University, Long Beach ( Long Beach State )— Black and Blue Rivalry Series: The two Southern California schools compete in various sports such as baseball, basketball and volleyball to accumulate points for every victory.

* " Black Skull " ( Australopithecus aethiopicus, specimen KNM-WT 17000 )— ArcheologyInfo. com

* The Late Edwina Black ( 1951 )— Gregory Black