Tudor Rose (film)

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Tudor Rose
Gaumont British
Release date
  • 1 September 1936 (1936-09-01)
Running time
78 min
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Tudor Rose (U.S. title: Nine Days a Queen) is a 1936 British film directed by

Robert Stevenson and starring Cedric Hardwicke and Nova Pilbeam
.

The film is a dramatization of

King Henry VIII on his deathbed stating the order of succession and ends with Jane's beheading. The story deviates from the historical record somewhat, including a fictional Earl of Warwick character who is similar to John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland
.

The title refers to the Tudor rose. The story of Lady Jane Grey was also the basis for the film Lady Jane (1986).

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Reception

Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene offered a negative review, noting that he had "seldom listened to more inchoate rubbish than in Tudor Rose." Green described Robert Stevenson's direction as "smooth, competent, if rather banal" and criticized the film's historicity, dialogue, writing and scenes. Greene wrote: "There is not a character, not an incident in which history has not been altered for the cheapest of reasons," concluding that the historical-drama genre had reached "the Dark Age of scholarship and civilization."[1]

The film was voted the second best British picture of 1936 by readers of Film Weekly magazine, trailing only The Ghost Goes West. Nova Pilbeam won the magazine's Best Acting award, besting Robert Donat for his performance in The Ghost Goes West.[2]

References

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  2. ^ "BEST FILM PERFORMANCE LAST YEAR". The Examiner. Launceston, Tasmania. 9 July 1937. p. 8 Edition: LATE NEWS EDITION and DAILY. Retrieved 4 March 2013 – via National Library of Australia.

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