<P> Despite receiving some negative reviews and a mixed, but complimentary review from the New York Times and one from Pauline Kael, the film was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won the award for best costumes . Geneviève Bujold's portrayal of Anne, her first in an English - speaking film, was, however, very highly praised, even by Time magazine, which otherwise skewered the movie . According to the Academy Awards exposé Inside Oscar, an expensive advertising campaign was mounted by Universal Studios that included serving champagne and filet mignon to members of the Academy following each screening . </P> <P> The play Anne of the Thousand Days, the film's basis, was first enacted on Broadway in the Shubert Theatre on 8 December 1948; staged by H.C. Potter, with Rex Harrison and Joyce Redman as Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn respectively, running 288 performances; Harrison won a Tony Award for his performance . </P> <P> Cinematically, Anne of the Thousand Days took twenty years to reach the screen because its themes--adultery, illegitimacy, incest--were then unacceptable to the US motion picture production code . The film was made on such locations as Penshurst Place and Hever Castle, and at Pinewood and Shepperton Studios . Hever Castle was one of the main settings for the film; it was also the childhood home of Anne Boleyn . </P> <P> The film begins in 1536 when Henry VIII (Richard Burton) considers whether or not he should sign the warrant for the execution of his second wife, Anne Boleyn: then, in a long flashback which takes up virtually the entire film, the whole truth is revealed . Starting in 1527, Henry has a problem: he reveals his dissatisfaction with his wife, Catherine of Aragon (Irene Papas). He is currently enjoying a discreet affair with Mary Boleyn, a daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn who is one of his courtiers; but the King is bored with her too . At a court ball, he notices Mary's 18 - year - old sister Anne (Geneviève Bujold), who has just returned from her education in France . She is engaged to the son of the Earl of Northumberland and they have received their parents' permission to marry . The King, however, is enraptured with Anne's beauty and orders his Lord Chancellor, Cardinal Wolsey, to break up the engagement . </P>

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