1969
Director: Charles Jarrott
Writer: Maxwell Anderson (play) Bridget Boland
Producer: Richard McWhorter (associate producer ) Hal B. Wallis
Cinematography: Arthur Ibbetson
Costume: Margaret Furse
Music: Georges Delerue
Henry VIII's obsession with siring a male heir endangers all around him: his courtiers, his government servants... He was King. She was barely 18. And in their thousand days they played out the most passionate and shocking love story in history!
The masked girl who interrupts Queen Katherine's prayers is played by an unbilled Elizabeth Taylor.
Anne: But Elizabeth is yours. Watch her as she grows; she's yours. She's a Tudor! Get yourself a son off of that sweet, pale girl if you can - and hope that he will live! But Elizabeth shall reign after you! Yes, Elizabeth - child of Anne the Whore and Henry the Blood-Stained Lecher - shall be Queen! And remember this: Elizabeth shall be a greater queen than any king of yours! She shall rule a greater England than you could ever have built! Yes - My Elizabeth Shall be Queen! And my blood will have been well spent!
Cast List:
Richard Burton | .... | King Henry VIII |
Geneviève Bujold | .... | Anne Boleyn |
Irene Papas | .... | Queen Katherine |
Anthony Quayle | .... | Cardinal Wolsey |
John Colicos | .... | Thomas Cromwell |
Michael Hordern | .... | Thomas Boleyn |
Katharine Blake | .... | Elizabeth Boleyn |
Peter Jeffrey | .... | Norfolk |
Joseph O'Conor | .... | Fisher |
William Squire | .... | Thomas More |
Valerie Gearon | .... | Mary Boleyn |
Vernon Dobtcheff | .... | Mendoza |
Gary Bond | .... | Smeaton |
Terence Wilton | .... | Lord Percy |
Denis Quilley | .... | Weston |
Esmond Knight | .... | Kingston |
T.P. McKenna | .... | Norris |
Michael Johnson | .... | George Boleyn |
Marne Maitland | .... | Campeggio |
Nora Swinburne | .... | Lady Kingston |
June Ellis | .... | Bess |
Cyril Luckham | .... | Prior Houghton |
Brook Williams | .... | Breareton |
Lesley Paterson | .... | Jane Seymour |
Amanda Jane Smythe | .... | Baby Elizabeth |
Nicola Pagett | .... | Princess Mary |
Whit Bissell | .... | (uncredited) |
Kate Burton | .... | Serving Maid (uncredited) |
Liza Todd Burton | .... | Beggar Maid (uncredited) |
Kynaston Reeves | .... | (uncredited) |
Elizabeth Taylor | .... | Courtesan (uncredited) |
Rita Tobin-Weske | .... | Midwife (uncredited) |