• The Private Life of Henry VIII is a 1933 British film directed and co-produced by Alexander Korda and starring Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Merle Oberon...
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    Queen of England as the third wife of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 30 May 1536 until her death the next year. She became queen following the execution...
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    Portrait of Henry VIII is a lost painting by Hans Holbein the Younger depicting Henry VIII. It is one of the most iconic images of Henry VIII and is one of the...
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    Anne of Cleves (German: Anna von Kleve; 1515 – 16 July 1557) was Queen of England from 6 January to 12 July 1540 as the fourth wife of Henry VIII. Little...
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    Alexander Korda (category Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom)
    outstanding classics of the British film industry, including The Private Life of Henry VIII, Rembrandt, Things To Come, The Thief of Baghdad and The Third Man....
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    Charles Laughton (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
    British films of the era, including The Private Life of Henry VIII, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the title character...
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    Elsa Lanchester (category Actors from the London Borough of Lewisham)
    including the role of Anne of Cleves with Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). Her success in American films resulted in the couple moving...
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    wives of Henry VIII and years of marriage v t e In common parlance, the wives of Henry VIII were the six Queens consort of King Henry VIII of England...
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    Jannings The Prince and the Pauper (1920): Albert Schreiber When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922): Lyn Harding The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933): Charles...
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    Merle Oberon (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) and saw further success with her role in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934). She later travelled to the United...
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  • Orson Welles's unrealized projects (category Lists of unrealized projects by artist)
    the company for a film called The Private Life of Henry VIII. In addition to Henry VIII, that same year Welles also in talks to do an adaptation of Henrik...
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  • once again fail to make a deal with the estate of creator L. Frank Baum. The Private Life of Henry VIII becomes the first British film to win an American...
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    V (Kenneth Branagh, 1989) King Henry VIII from The Private Life of Henry VIII (Charles Laughton, 1933), & Anne of the Thousand Days (Richard Burton, 1969)...
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  • The Six Wives of Henry VIII is the second studio album by English keyboardist Rick Wakeman, released in January 1973 on A&M Records. It is an instrumental...
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    Binnie Barnes (category Actors from the London Borough of Islington)
    continued in Great Britain, most notably in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) as Katherine Howard, Henry's fifth wife. Barnes' main qualm in accepting...
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  • Minister to King Henry VIII of England from 1534 to 1540. He played a prominent role in the important events of Henry's reign, including the king's divorce...
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    Robert Donat (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    playing Thomas Culpeper in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) for the same producer. The film, starring Charles Laughton in the title role, was an enormous...
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    Actress) Three portrayals of King Henry VIII of England earned nominations for: Charles Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) (winner, Best Actor)...
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    of two of the wives of King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, both of whom were beheaded, and played a major role in the machinations affecting...
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  • London Films (category Film production companies of the United Kingdom)
    The company's productions included The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), Things to Come (1936), Rembrandt (1936), and The Four Feathers (1939). The facility...
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  • Thomas Culpeper (category Court of Henry VIII)
    close friend of Henry VIII, and was related to two of his queens, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. He is known a to have had many private meetings with...
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    Terry-Thomas (category Actors from the London Borough of Barnet)
    in London, Terry-Thomas made his film debut, uncredited, in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). He spent several years appearing in smaller roles, before...
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  • 6th Academy Awards (category March 1934 events in the United States)
    Cukor, to join the two Franks on stage. After this, he summoned two of the Best Actress nominees—Diana Wynyard and May Robson—to the stage. Although...
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    Alexander Korda as a reference to The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), his breakthrough film of the previous year. The "truly landmark film," provides, according...
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    Wendy Barrie (category Naturalized citizens of the United States)
    Zoltan, the best known of which is 1933's The Private Life of Henry VIII, in which she portrayed Jane Seymour. In 1934, she appeared in Freedom of the Seas...
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    1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and execution, by...
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  • Young Bess (category Films about Henry VIII)
    Laughton as Elizabeth's father, Henry VIII, a part he had played 20 years before in The Private Life of Henry VIII. The film was directed by George Sidney...
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  • for Living. Gregg made her film debut in the 1933 film The Private Life of Henry VIII as Catherine Parr, Henry's last wife. A small part as a nurse in David...
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  • These are the films of Charles Laughton: Unless otherwise stated the films are U.S. productions in black and white. Charles Laughton at IMDb Charles Laughton...
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    gave the film the title it bears today, mirroring the titles of earlier historical films such as The Private Life of Henry VIII and The Private Life of Don...
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