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Richard Burton played Henry VIII and Geneviève Bujold played Anne Boleyn in Anne of the Thousand Days. Irene Papas played Catherine of Aragon, Anthony Quayle played Cardinal Wolsey, and John Colicos played Thomas Cromwell.
Anne of the Thousand Days is a 1969 British historical drama directed by Charles Jarrott and produced by Hal B. Wallis. The screenplay was written by Bridget Boland and John Hale.
Yes, Anne of the Thousand Days is adapted from the 1948 play of the same name by Maxwell Anderson. The play opened at the Shubert Theatre on the 8th of December 1948, starring Rex Harrison and Joyce Redman, and ran for 288 performances.
Anne of the Thousand Days was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and won one, Best Costume Design, awarded to Margaret Furse. Geneviève Bujold remains the only actress ever nominated for an Oscar for playing Anne Boleyn.
Historian Antonia Fraser has said the film's central premise, Henry's unrequited passion for Anne, is entirely unhistorical, since all six of Henry's wives married him willingly. The film also shows Anne as 18 in 1527, though most historians place her in her early to mid 20s, and it invents a final meeting between Anne and Henry before her execution.
Yes, Elizabeth Taylor, who was married to star Richard Burton at the time, made an uncredited cameo as a masked courtesan who interrupts Queen Catherine's prayers.