The Private Life of Henry VIII written by Lajos Biro, Arthur Wimperis was nominated in 1934 for The Oscar for Best Picture, and it won The Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Charles Laughton as Henry VIII; it is also one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made – you have thousands of notes on films from the NYT 1,000 and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws are radiant

 

The Private Life of Henry VIII written by Lajos Biro, Arthur Wimperis was nominated in 1934 for The Oscar for Best Picture, and it won The Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Charles Laughton as Henry VIII; it is also one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made – you have thousands of notes on films from the NYT 1,000 and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws are radiant

 

8 out of 10

 

Let me use a sound bite: I see Henry VIII as a sort of predecessor of The Orange ‘Abrascam’ (as Jimmy Kimmel called him) except in this motion picture, Henry VIII was amusing, although keeping things in proportion this modern day Caligula has not killed wives, just divorced two (maybe more in the future) even if he is responsible for many deaths

 

The other king that comes to mind is Richard III https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/richard-iii-by-william-shakespeare.html who has been rehabilitated, they have found his remains in a parking lot, they made a film about it, called The Lost King, I could check the name, but then it was not such a great feature

What is marvelous is this book by Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time, which is included in some of the most prestigious lists of the best Mystery books and The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, and it looks at the myth of Richard III, debunking the notion that he killed those children https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-daughter-of-time-by-josephine-fey.html he was actually a good monarch

 

Henry VIII is infamous – Kingsley Amis wrote about this word saying that the misuse had made it taboo, people do not have the sense of what it means – for marrying and then killing a few wives, although in this motion picture they take a lighter tone, and say that one was stupid, another one had another shortcoming

Because the one making these statements is also a woman, maybe we should not call it misogynistic…even if his majesty clearly was, if one who kills women is not, then I do not know who is…there is another story https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-other-boleyn-girl-based-on-novel-by.html

 

The Other Boleyn Girl, and plenty more which looked at this imposing figure, indeed, Henry VIII was even physically impressive: in the film, they make fun at the notion that his last spouse was domineering and prevented him from eating and drinking (too much) and he says ‘the best was the worst’, presumably of the wives

He did not have the chance to read The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-seven-principles-of-making-marriage.html a classic of psychology today, the author, John Gottman, should have advised his royal highness, although not killing your partners should be common sense

 

Furthermore, King Henry VIII separated more than a few marriages, The Anglican Church was born because he did not get an annulment from the pope, in the Catholic church, one is united for ever  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/05/12-steps-to-compassion-by-karen.html he was a sinister character, if amusing in this feature

 

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