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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 and Elsa Lanchester. It was written by Lajos Bíró and Arthur Wimperis for London Film Productions, Korda's production company.
The Private Life of Henry VIII: Directed by Alexander Korda. With Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Franklin Dyall, Miles Mander. King Henry VIII marries five more times after his divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon.
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- Biography, Drama
- Alexander Korda
- 1933-09-21
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII (Charles Laughton) goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn (Merle Oberon), his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King ...
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- Charles Laughton
- Alexander Korda
- History, Drama
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
English king Henry VIII has over-ambitious, son-less second wife Anne Boleyn beheaded so he can marry sweet Jane Seymour. Alas, heir Edward's birth proves fatal for her. Next Anne of Cleves, a diplomatic choice from Germany, proves romantically unacceptable, but agrees to a divorce.
Alexander's Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) is unanimously cited as the film that first defined British cinema in the sound era. It treated a quintessentially British subject the reign of the colorful and quite probably mad King Henry VIII with both elegance and humor, gave it an illusion of grand production values and produced ...
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The Private Life of Henry VIII. Charles Laughton gulps beer and chomps on mutton, in his first of many iconic screen roles, as King Henry VIII, the ultimate anti-husband.
