Word: superstars
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...Laughton. To the derision of the whole British film industry, Producer Korda promptly cast Laughton as Henry VIII. He then persuaded United Artists to release the finished picture and last of all got together enough private capital to make it. The Private Life of Henry VIII made Laughton a superstar, launched the careers of Robert Donat, Binnie Barnes, Wendy Barrie and Merle Oberon, caused Korda to be the most spectacular cinema success of 1933 and established the British film industry as an enterprise capable of better things than sleepy musicomedies, third-rate murder stories and "quota quickies." When Henry VIII...