Word: boleyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scene the First: a bloodthirsty lady waiting in the stands for the decapitation of Anne Boleyn (that's Merle Oberon) says to the female in front of her, "Would you mind removing your hat, please?" From there on, it's deuces (and Queens) wild, with an intended or unintended laugh ever 7 1-2 seconds, and a chance to receive the most erroneous impression of a historical period that ever engraved upon celluloid. Scene the Second: in struts Charles Laughton as the marrying king, with some of the placid content of an enraged bull in a cow pasture...
...cause of all the action, he never seems the center of the play; and its interest wobbles between the just deserts visited on that "proud, bad man," the ambitious Cardinal Wolsey, and the unjust deserts visited on that proud, good woman whom Henry cast aside for Anne Boleyn-Katherine of Aragon...
Henry VIII believed that his new bride, Anne Boleyn, was comparable to the finest products of the royal orchards-"a wife with a strawberry breath, cherry lips, apricot cheeks, and a soft velvet head like a melicotton [peach]." But old Farmer Brocke insisted that the new Queen was actually the daughter of Old Nick, as was proved by the fact that she had a mole shaped like a strawberry on her white neck, and sometimes touched it with her left hand-on which grew a rudimentary sixth finger. Farmer Brocke believed that King Henry had married a witch...
...Anne Boleyn's Psalter-the one she carried to the scaffold- was stolen from Hever Castle-in Edenbridge, England, by burglars with a sharp sense of history. Other purloined items: Husband Henry VIII's signet ring, Queen Elizabeth's prayer book...
...official barge swept up to the landing stage of the Tower of London. Out stepped 20-year-old Elizabeth, Queen Mary's red-haired half-sister, who had just been arrested on suspicion of treason. At sight of the terrible Tower, where her luckless mother, Queen Anne Boleyn, had lost her head, the Lady Elizabeth's legs sank under her, and she fell weeping on the wet stones. Then she pulled herself together and walked into the prison with her head held high...