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{{Short description|1969 British film by Charles Jarrott}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Anne of the Thousand Days
| image          = Original movie poster for the film Anne of the Thousand Days.jpg
| caption        = Original theatrical poster
| director       = [[Charles Jarrott]]
| screenplay     = [[Bridget Boland]]<br>John Hale
| story          = Richard Sokolove
| based_on       = ''Anne of the Thousand Days'' <br>by [[Maxwell Anderson]]
| starring       = [[Richard Burton]]<br>[[Geneviève Bujold]]<br>[[Irene Papas]]<br>[[Anthony Quayle]]<br>[[John Colicos]]
| producer       = [[Hal B. Wallis]]
| music          = [[Georges Delerue]]
| cinematography = [[Arthur Ibbetson]]
| editing        = Richard Marden
| studio         = Hal Wallis Productions
| distributor    = [[The Rank Organisation]] {{small|(UK)}}<br>[[Universal Pictures]] {{small|(US)}}
| released       = {{Film date|1969|12|18|df=y|United States|1970|2|23|United Kingdom}}
| runtime        = 145 minutes
| country        = United Kingdom
| language       = English
|budget=$4.5 million<ref name="los">{{cite news|newspaper=The Los Angeles Times|date=30 January 1972|first=Joyce|last=Haber|title=Presenting the exclusive, reclusive Hal Wallis|page=15}}</ref>
| gross          = $6,134,264 (US/Canada rentals)<ref>"Big Rental Films of 1970", ''Variety'', 6 January 1971 p 11</ref> or $15-20 million (world gross)<ref name="los"/>
}}
'''''Anne of the Thousand Days''''' is a 1969 British [[Historical drama|historical drama film]] based on the life of [[Anne Boleyn]], directed by [[Charles Jarrott]] and produced by [[Hal B. Wallis]]. The screenplay by [[Bridget Boland]] and John Hale is an adaptation of the 1948 play of the same name by [[Maxwell Anderson]].

The film stars [[Richard Burton]] as [[Henry VIII|King Henry VIII]] and [[Geneviève Bujold]] as [[Anne Boleyn]]. [[Irene Papas]] plays [[Catherine of Aragon]], [[Anthony Quayle]] plays Cardinal [[Thomas Wolsey]], and [[John Colicos]] plays [[Thomas Cromwell]]. Others in the cast include [[Michael Hordern]], [[Katharine Blake (actress)|Katharine Blake]], [[Peter Jeffrey]], [[Joseph O'Conor]], [[William Squire]], [[Vernon Dobtcheff]], [[Denis Quilley]], [[Esmond Knight]], and [[T. P. McKenna]], who later played Henry VIII in [[Monarch (film)|''Monarch'']]. Burton's wife [[Elizabeth Taylor]] makes a brief, uncredited appearance.

Despite receiving some negative reviews<ref>"''Anne of the Thousand Days'' seems to have been made for one person: the Queen of England", ''Time'' Magazine</ref> and mixed reviews from ''[[The New York Times]]''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=1&res=9907EFDA1F39EF34BC4951DFB766838B669EDE&oref=slogin |work=The New York Times |first=Vincent |last=Canby |title=Screen: A Royal Battle of the Sexes:'Anne of 1,000 Days' Bows at Plaza Burton Cast as Henry Miss Bujold Stars |date=21 January 1970 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131008030712/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=1&res=9907EFDA1F39EF34BC4951DFB766838B669EDE&oref=slogin |archive-date=8 October 2013}}</ref> and [[Pauline Kael]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.ws/paulinekaelreviews/a5.html|title=Pauline Kael|website=www.geocities.ws}}</ref> the film was nominated for 10 [[Academy Awards]] and won the award for [[Academy Award for Best Costume Design|best costumes]]. Geneviève Bujold's portrayal of Anne, her first role in an English language film, was very highly praised, even by ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine, which otherwise skewered the movie.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,878191,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114104255/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,878191,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=14 January 2009 | magazine=Time | title=Cinema: The Lion in Autumn | date=2 February 1970 | access-date=25 April 2010}}</ref> According to the [[Academy Awards]] exposé ''Inside Oscar'', an expensive advertising campaign was mounted by [[Universal Pictures|Universal Studios]] that included serving [[champagne]] and [[filet mignon]] to members of the Academy following each screening.<ref>''Inside Oscar'', Mason Wiley and Damien Boa, Ballantine Books (1986) pg. 434</ref>

==Plot==
In [[London]], 1536, [[Henry VIII]] considers whether or not he should sign the warrant for the [[Capital punishment|execution]] of his [[Wives of Henry VIII|second wife]], [[Anne Boleyn]].

Nine years earlier, in 1527, Henry has a problem: he reveals his dissatisfaction with his wife, [[Catherine of Aragon]]. He is enjoying a discreet [[affair]] with [[Mary Boleyn]], a daughter of one of his courtiers, Sir [[Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire|Thomas Boleyn]], but the king is bored with her too. At a court [[Ball (dance event)|ball]], he notices Mary's eighteen-year-old sister, [[Anne Boleyn|Anne]], who has returned from her education in [[France]]. She is [[Engagement|engaged]] to the [[Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland|son of the Earl of Northumberland]], and they have received their parents' permission to marry. The king, however, is enraptured with Anne's beauty and orders [[Cardinal Wolsey]], his [[Lord Chancellor]], to break the engagement.

When news of this decision is carried to Anne, she reacts furiously. She blames the cardinal and the king for ruining her happiness. When Henry makes a rather clumsy attempt to [[Seduction|seduce]] her, Anne bluntly informs him how she finds him.

Henry brings her back to court with him, and she continues to resist his advances out of a mixture of repulsion for Henry and her lingering anger over her broken engagement. However, she becomes intoxicated with the power that the king's love gives her. Using this power, she continually undermines Cardinal Wolsey, who initially sees Anne as a passing love interest for the king.

When Henry again presses Anne to become his [[Mistress (lover)|mistress]], she repeats that she never will give birth to an [[Legitimacy (family law)|illegitimate]] child. Desperate to have a son, Henry suddenly comes up with the idea of marrying Anne in Catherine's place. Anne is stunned, but she agrees. Wolsey begs the king to abandon the idea because of the political consequences of divorcing Catherine. Henry refuses to listen.

When Wolsey fails to persuade the pope to give Henry his [[divorce]], Anne points out this failing to an enraged Henry. Wolsey is dismissed from office, and his magnificent palace in London is given as a present to Anne, who realizes she has finally fallen in love with Henry. They sleep together, and after discovering that she is pregnant, they are [[Elopement|secretly married]]. Anne is given a splendid [[Coronation of Anne Boleyn|coronation]], but the people jeer at her in disgust.

Months later, Anne gives birth to a daughter, [[Elizabeth I of England|Princess Elizabeth]]. Henry is displeased because he wanted a son, and their marital relationship begins to cool. His attentions are soon diverted to Lady [[Jane Seymour]], one of Anne's [[Maid|maids]]. Once she discovers this liaison, Anne [[Exile|banishes]] Jane from court.

During a row over Sir [[Thomas More]]'s opposition to Anne's queenship, Anne refuses to sleep with her husband again unless More is put to death. More is executed, but Anne's subsequent pregnancy ends with a [[Stillbirth|stillborn]] boy.

Henry demands that his new minister [[Thomas Cromwell]] find a way to get rid of Anne. Cromwell tortures a servant in her household into confessing to [[adultery]] with the queen; he then arrests four other courtiers who are also accused of being Anne's lovers. Anne is taken to the [[Tower of London|Tower]] and placed under arrest. When she is told that she has been accused of adultery, Anne laughs until she sees her [[George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford|brother]] being brought into the Tower and learns he faces the same accusation.

At Anne's trial, she manages to cross-question [[Mark Smeaton]], the tortured servant who finally admits that the charges against Anne were lies. Henry makes an appearance, then visits Anne in her chambers that night. He offers her freedom if she will agree to [[Annulment|annul]] their marriage and make their daughter illegitimate. Anne refuses, saying that she would rather die than betray their daughter, whom she claims will rule after Henry. He slaps her and tells her that her disobedience will mean her death.

In the present, Henry decides to execute Anne. A few days later, she is taken to the scaffold and [[Decapitation|beheaded]] by a French swordsman. Henry rides off to marry Jane Seymour. Meanwhile, Elizabeth toddles alone in the garden as she hears cannons firing, announcing her mother's death.

==Cast==
{{Cast listing|
* [[Richard Burton]] as [[Henry VIII|King Henry VIII]]
* [[Geneviève Bujold]] as [[Anne Boleyn]]
* [[Irene Papas]] as Queen [[Catherine of Aragon]]
* [[Anthony Quayle]] as Cardinal [[Thomas Wolsey]]
* [[John Colicos]] as [[Thomas Cromwell]]
* [[Michael Hordern]] as [[Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire|Thomas Boleyn]]
* [[Katharine Blake (actress)|Katharine Blake]] as [[Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire|Elizabeth Boleyn]]
* [[Valerie Gearon]] as [[Mary Boleyn]]
* Michael Johnson as [[George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford|George Boleyn]]
* [[Peter Jeffrey]] as [[Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk]]
* [[Joseph O'Conor]] as [[John Fisher|Bishop Fisher]]
* [[William Squire]] as Sir [[Thomas More]]
* [[Esmond Knight]] as Sir [[William Kingston]]
* [[Nora Swinburne]] as [[Mary Scrope|Lady Kingston]]
* [[Vernon Dobtcheff]] as [[Íñigo López de Mendoza y Zúñiga|Mendoza]]
* [[Brook Williams]] as Sir [[William Brereton (courtier)|William Brereton]]
* [[Gary Bond]] as [[Mark Smeaton]]
* [[T. P. McKenna]] as Sir [[Henry Norris (courtier)|Henry Norris]]
* [[Denis Quilley]] as Sir [[Francis Weston]]
* [[Terence Wilton]] as [[Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland|Lord Percy]]
* [[Lesley Paterson (actress)|Lesley Paterson]] as [[Jane Seymour]]
* [[Nicola Pagett]] as [[Mary I of England|Princess Mary]]
* [[June Ellis]] as Bess
* [[Kynaston Reeves]] as Willoughby
* [[Marne Maitland]] as [[Lorenzo Campeggio|Cardinal Campeggio]]
* [[Cyril Luckham]] as [[John Houghton (martyr)|Prior Houghton]]
* [[Amanda Jane Smythe]] as [[Elizabeth I|Princess Elizabeth]]}}

[[Elizabeth Taylor]] has an uncredited cameo appearance as a masked [[courtesan]] who interrupts Queen Catherine's prayers. [[Kate Burton (actress)|Kate Burton]] makes her acting debut as a maid.

==Background and production==
The play ''Anne of the Thousand Days'', the film's basis, was first enacted on Broadway in the [[Shubert Theatre (New York City)|Shubert Theatre]] on 8 December 1948; staged by [[H. C. Potter]], with [[Rex Harrison]] and [[Joyce Redman]] as Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn respectively, running 288 performances; Harrison won a [[Tony Award]] for his performance.

Cinematically, ''Anne of the Thousand Days'' took 20 years to reach the screen because its themes – adultery, illegitimacy, incest – were then unacceptable to the U.S. motion picture [[production code]]. The film was made on such locations as [[Penshurst Place]] and [[Hever Castle]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064030/locations|title=Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) - IMDb|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref> and at [[Pinewood Studios|Pinewood]] and [[Shepperton Studios]].
Hever Castle was one of the main settings for the film; it was also the childhood home of Anne Boleyn.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kentfilmoffice.co.uk/filmed-in-kent/1969/12/anne-of-the-thousand-days-1969|title=Kent Film Office Anne of the Thousand Days Film Focus|author=Kent Film Office|date=18 December 1969}}</ref>

British actress [[Olivia Hussey]] was the first choice for the role of Anne Boleyn.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://production.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/229|title=Groucho Reviews: Interview: Olivia Hussey—Romeo and Juliet|author=Groucho|website=Groucho Reviews|access-date=1 October 2008}}</ref> When producer [[Hal B. Wallis]] first met Hussey in New York in November 1967 at a party for her then upcoming film ''[[Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)|Romeo and Juliet]]'' (1968), he offered her the title role. In addition, he also offered her to star with [[John Wayne]] in ''[[True Grit (1969 film)|True Grit]]'' (1969). In her 2019 memoir, Hussey stated that she had "mumbled something about being interested in ''Anne of the Thousand Days''” but added that she "couldn’t see herself with Wayne". She claims that this "adolescent and opinionated" remark inevitably ended her professional relationship with Wallis, and he immediately withdrew his offer from her. "It had taken me less than a minute to talk my way out of it" Hussey stated.<ref>{{cite book|title=The girl on the balcony : Olivia Hussey finds life after Romeo & Juliet|last1=Hussey|first1=Olivia|date=31 July 2018 |isbn=978-1496717078|edition=First Kensington hardcoverition|pages=84–85}}</ref>

Maxwell Anderson employed [[blank verse]] for parts of his play, but most examples of this were removed from the screenplay. One blank verse episode that was retained was Anne's soliloquy in the [[Tower of London]]. The opening of the play was changed, with [[Thomas Cromwell]]'s telling [[Henry VIII]] the outcome of the trial and Henry's recalling his marriage to Anne rather than Anne's speaking first and then Henry's remembering in flashback.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ncRbgYvnQTAC&q=Anne+of+the+Thousand+Days Anne of the Thousand Days], ''Google books'', accessed 15 April 2012</ref>

==Historicity==
*[[Antonia Fraser]] has noted that the "beating heart at the center of the film" — that is, the unrequited passion of Henry for Anne, which undergoes a complete reversal by the end of the story — is entirely unhistorical. She observed that "Monster that Henry might have been, all six of his wives married him willingly" and that this depiction is "very far away from history — and the mentality of the sixteenth century." In short, "the real Anne Boleyn was delighted to receive the king's attentions".<ref>[[Antonia Fraser|Fraser, Antonia]], Entry, "Anne of the Thousand Days" [Review of the 1969 film], In: Carnes, Mark C., ed. (1995), ''Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies'', [[New York City|New York]]: [[Henry Holt and Company]] (Series: A Society of American Historians Book), pp 66-69.</ref>
* Historians dispute King Henry VIII's paternity of one or both of Mary Boleyn's children. ''Henry VIII: The King and His Court'' by [[Alison Weir]] questions the paternity of Henry Carey;<ref name="Weir-Henry&Court">{{cite book |last=Weir |title=Henry VIII: The King and His Court |pages=216}}</ref> Dr. G. W. Bernard (''The King's Reformation'') and Joanna Denny (''Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen'') argue that Henry VIII was their father.
* Anne Boleyn might not have been 18 years old in 1527; her birth date is unrecorded. Most historians today believe that she was in her early to mid 20s in 1527.
* There is no proof that Henry VIII ordered the breaking of Henry Percy and Anne Boleyn's engagement because he wanted Anne for himself. Percy's family, the Northumberlands, were one of the leading families in the North of England, and they always wanted Henry Percy to marry Mary Talbot, a rich heiress from the same region, and not a girl from a comparatively lower status family. They might have asked for the king's and Cardinal Wolsey's intervention when the engagement was made public. In fact, in order to have no impediment for Henry VIII's and Anne's marriage, all parties always denied that any engagement had taken place.
* Most histories of the period say nothing about Anne's pressuring Henry to have More executed.
* Catherine of Aragon's daughter, Mary, was not present at the time of Catherine's final illness and death; they were being kept apart forcibly.
* Catherine of Aragon's depiction by Irene Papas was wrong in terms of appearance; it is well documented that the queen had auburn hair and a very pale complexion, and that she had become fat by the time she was in her middle thirties. Papas was chosen as she has a stereotypical Mediterranean appearance, matching false popular assumptions on how a 'Spanish' noble would look.{{citation needed|date=December 2017}} The same goes for Jane Seymour: here depicted as a brunette, she was in fact a blonde.
* The meeting between Anne and Henry shortly before her execution is fictional, and even if such a meeting had taken place, some details of their discussion are implausible. Anne's marriage was annulled anyway, and she never was offered a deal that would have given her her freedom. Elizabeth and Mary were both declared illegitimate, but were nevertheless in the line of succession, but not until after Anne's death. Thus, at that point, the chance of Elizabeth's inheriting the crown must have seemed small.
* Henry did not intervene in Anne's trial; she was disallowed the right to question the witnesses against her. She and the king met last at a joust the day before her arrest.
* ''Anne of the Thousand Days'' depicts Anne as innocent of the charges laid against her, and this is considered historically correct in the biographies by Eric W. Ives, [[Retha Warnicke]], Joanna Denny, and [[David Starkey]], which all assert her innocence of adultery, incest, and witchcraft.

==Reception==
The film received mixed reviews from critics, as most commonly they considered the plot dull and plodding. Beyond the story itself, the performances of [[Geneviève Bujold]], [[Richard Burton]], and [[Irene Papas]] were met with universal acclaim, especially that of Bujold. Bujold remains the only actress to have been nominated for an [[Academy Award|Oscar]] for playing [[Anne Boleyn]].

The film was one of the more popular movies of 1970 at the British box office.<ref>{{cite book|page=269|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NTmrBgAAQBAJ&q=guinness+book+of+box+office+hits+swern+childs&pg=PA268|title=British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure: The Boundaries of Pleasure|first=Sue|last= Harper|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|date= 2011|isbn = 9780748654260}}</ref>

==Accolades==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Awards<ref name="Oscars1970">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1970 |title=The 42nd Academy Awards (1970) Nominees and Winners |access-date=26 August 2011|work=oscars.org}}</ref><ref name="NY Times">{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/2542/Anne-of-the-Thousand-Days/awards |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018185010/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/2542/Anne-of-the-Thousand-Days/awards |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 October 2012 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2012 |title=NY Times: Anne of the Thousand Days |access-date=27 December 2008}}</ref>
!Category
!Nominee
!Result
|-
| rowspan="10" |[[42nd Academy Awards]]
|[[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]
|[[Hal B. Wallis]]
| {{nom}}
|-
|[[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor in a Leading Role]]
|[[Richard Burton]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress in a Leading Role]]
|[[Geneviève Bujold]]
| {{nom}}
|-
|[[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Actor in a Supporting Role]]
|[[Anthony Quayle]]
| {{nom}}
|-
|[[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]]
|[[Bridget Boland]]<br>John Hale<br>Richard Sokolove
| {{nom}}
|-
|[[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction - Set Decoration]]
|[[Maurice Carter (film designer)|Maurice Carter]]<br>[[Lionel Couch]]<br>[[Patrick McLoughlin (set decorator)|Patrick McLoughlin]]
| {{nom}}
|-
|[[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]]
|[[Arthur Ibbetson]]
| {{nom}}
|-
|[[Academy Award for Best Costume Design|Best Costume Design]]
|[[Margaret Furse]]
| {{won}}
|-
|[[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Music, Original Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical)]]
|[[Georges Delerue]]
| {{nom}}
|-
|[[Academy Award for Best Sound|Best Sound]]
|[[John Aldred (sound engineer)|John Aldred]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="7" |[[27th Golden Globe Awards]]
|[[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama|Best Motion Picture – Drama]]
|[[Hal B. Wallis]]
| {{won}}
|-
|[[Golden Globe Award for Best Director|Best Director - Motion Picture]]
|[[Charles Jarrott]]
| {{won}}
|-
|[[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama|Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama]]
|[[Richard Burton]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama|Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama]]
|[[Geneviève Bujold]]
| {{won}}
|-
|[[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture]]
|[[Anthony Quayle]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]
|[[Bridget Boland]]<br>John Hale<br>Richard Sokolove
| {{won}}
|-
|[[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]]
|[[Georges Delerue]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[24th British Academy Film Awards]]
|[[BAFTA Award for Best Art Direction|Best Art Direction]]
|[[Maurice Carter (film designer)|Maurice Carter]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design|Best Costume Design]]
|[[Margaret Furse]]
| {{nom}}
|-
|1970 [[American Cinema Editors|American Cinema Editors Awards]]
|[[American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic|Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic]]
|Richard Marden
|{{nom}}
|-
|1970 [[Writers Guild of America Awards]]
|[[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]]
|[[Bridget Boland]]<br>John Hale
|{{nom}}
|}

==See also==
* ''[[The Other Boleyn Girl]]''
* [[The Other Boleyn Girl (2003 film)|''The Other Boleyn Girl'' (2003 film)]]
* [[The Other Boleyn Girl (2008 film)|''The Other Boleyn Girl'' (2008 film)]]
* ''[[Wolf Hall]]''
* [[Wolf Hall (TV series)|''Wolf Hall'' (miniseries)]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0064030|Anne of the Thousand Days}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20180326001912/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bfee858 ''Anne of the Thousand Days''] at the [[British Film Institute]]{{better source needed|reason=Help request: a live link can be searched for at https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/search/expert - if available, replace the archive URL with the live link. Or if none found, remove this 'better source needed' template. | date=October 2023}}
* {{TCMDb title|67439|Anne of the Thousand Days}}
* {{rotten-tomatoes|anne_of_the_thousand_days|Anne of the Thousand Days}}

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