Editing The Private Life of Henry VIII (section)

===Box office===
''The Private Life of Henry VIII'' was a commercial success. It made [[Alexander Korda]] a premier figure in the film industry, and [[United Artists]] signed him for 16 films. It also advanced the careers of [[Charles Laughton]], [[Robert Donat]] and [[Merle Oberon]] (in her first major film role). Laughton would later reprise the same role in the 1953 film ''[[Young Bess]]'' opposite [[Jean Simmons]] as his daughter [[Elizabeth I|Elizabeth]].

The film earned receipts of £81,825 in the UK, which was not enough to recover its production costs.<ref>Chapman, p 17.</ref> However it was hugely successful overseas, being the 12th-most-successful of 1933 at the American box office<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33001319|title=Box Office Successes of 1933|newspaper=[[The West Australian]]|location=Perth|date=13 April 1934|access-date=9 July 2012|page=3|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and ultimately earned rentals of £500,000 on its first release.<ref>{{cite news|title=TAKING A LOOK AT THE RECORD|author=D. W.|date=25 November 1934|work=The New York Times|id={{ProQuest|101193306}}}}</ref>

It premiered to record-breaking crowds at New York's [[Radio City Music Hall]] and London's Leicester Square Theatre (now the [[Odeon West End]]), where it ran for nine weeks from 27 October 1933.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YsUfc8Ijb-wC&pg=PA78 ''Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain: A Choice of Pleasures''], Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2000, pp. 77–78</ref>