The Picture Show Annual (1954)

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Right: Lumsden Hare as Arch- bishop Cranmer, Charles Laugh- ton, Stewart Granger as Thomas Seymour, and Deborah Kerr as Catherine Parr, Henry's sixth wife, who survived his death, in " Young Bess." Extreme right : Another scene from " Young Bess.” Jean Simmons, as Bess, slips into the room where Edward (Rex Thomp- son) sleeps to tell him of their father's death. There Ned Seymour (Guy Rolfe) comes to hail his new King. CROW Richard Todd and Glynis Johns dance La Volta, in " The Sword and the Rose." Charles Laughton (right) in “ The Private Life of Henry VIII," won an Academy Award for the role. Charles Laughton depicts Henry VIII again (below) in " Young Bess.” \ LTHOUGH this is the atomic age when such wonders as breaking the sound barrier and tales of the possibility of interplanetary travel are commonplace, each one of us has plenty of room in our heart for stories of the wonders of a bygone age, an age before the telephone or the railway engine foretold the coming of the wireless and the aeroplane to revolutionise our lives ; before the camera made possible the coming of the newsreel to record for posterity real-life happenings of the lives of those who will be remembered in the history of tomorrow. Foremost in interest to historians and writers of plays and novels James Robertson are the glorious and exciting stories of our own heritage—the British Justice as Henry Crown. Kings and Queens are shown with the adventure and VIII in “ The intrigue that surround their courts—with full emphasis on romance Sword and the an d pageantry. The cinema made quick use of its opportunity to Rose." portray before our eyes these fabulous stories around the exciting days of the past. They date back to the very early days of the silent screen, when the great Sarah Bernhardt appeared in the first Adolph Zukor film and in which she starred as Elizabeth the First of England. Queen Elizabeth I was bom on September 7th, 1533. She was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She ascended the throne in 1558 in succession to Mary I. During the eleven years that passed between Henry VIII’s death in January, 1547, and the coronation of Elizabeth I, the throne had passed through turbulent times. (Right) Laurence Olivier as he was seen on the screen in " Henry V," a film which those who have seen it will never forget. THE