Today’s movie is a period drama waith a scene that happens
on February 13. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
YOUNG BESS
When her mother is executed,
Princess Elizabeth is declared illegitimate and out of the line of succession.
Her father remarries several times including Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves and
Catherine Howard. On February 13, 1542 [10:41 to 11:18] Catherine Howard is
executed for adultery. Elizabeth does
become friends with her father’s last wife, Catherine Parr. After her father’s
death Elizabeth persuades her half-brother Edward VI to allow their stepmother,
Catherine Parr to marry Sir Thomas Seymour. Elizabeth lives with the Seymours,
but ends up in a love triangle with Catherine and Thomas. Elizabeth moves out.
Later after Catherine dies, Thomas’s brother Edward has Thomas arrested and
executed for treason. After the death of her half-siblings, Edward VI and Mary,
Elizabeth becomes queen.
Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey
(HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 2007) at pages 683-684 gives the execution
date.
Producer - Sidney Franklin
Director - George Sidney
Awards – This film was nominated for the Best Costume Design
and Best Art Direction at the 26th Academy Awards.
Screenplay - Jan Lustig and Arthur Wimperis
Runtime – 1 hour 52 minutes
Released – May 21, 1953
Starring -
Jean Simmons as Princess Elizabeth
Stewart Granger as Thomas Seymour
Deborah Kerr as Catherine Parr
Charles Laughton as Henry VIII
Guy Rolfe as Edward "Ned" Seymour
Kathleen Byron as Anne Stanhope Seymour
Rex Thompson as Edward VI
Leo G. Carroll as Mr. Mums, Elizabeth's tutor
Alan Napier as Robert Tyrwhitt
Noreen Corcoran as Bess as a child
Elaine Stewart as Anne Boleyn
Dawn Addams as Catherine Howard
Lumsden Hare as Archbishop Thomas Cranmer
Lester Matthews as Sir William Paget
Ann Tyrrell as Mary
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015
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