Word: viii
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ORSON WELLES CINEMA I Private Life of Henry VIII, 4, 7:15, 10:40 Macbeth (Welles...
What are the books that sell 100,000 copies? Mary Queen of Scots, Wellington. What are the hit television films? The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Lord Clark's Civilisation. It's like a museum...
...PRODUCING AN ADAPTATION of Tom Brown's School Days the British Broadcasting Corporation faced a problem a bit different from the ones it dealt with succesfully in its series on the wives of Henry VIII, which appeared in this country last summer. It was possible to reconstruct the lives of the wives from a variety of sources; Tom Brown's School Days is a fairly well-known book, and any television serial that borrows its title invites a fairly stiff comparison...
...dashing young king gives up his throne for a woman while half the world breathlessly watches and listens. The courtship of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson may be the romance of the century; but to the producers of this dramatized recreation, it is just another soap opera, with Windsor Castle taking the place of General Hospital, Edward standing in for the handsome doctor on rounds, and poor Wally playing the inevitable "other woman...
Portrait: The Woman I Love. Hour-long special recounts the 1936 love affair of England's King Edward VIII and Wallis Warfield Simpson, twice-divorced American, that led to Edward's abdication. Richard Chamberlain and Faye Dunaway star. CH. 5. 9 p.m. Color...