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'''''The Private Life of Henry VIII''''' is a [[1933]] film nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Picture]]. It was written by [[Lajos Biró]] and [[Arthur Wimperis]], and directed by Sir [[Alexander Korda]].
'''Terman Middle School''' ''Home of the Tigers'' <ref>http://www.pausd.palo-alto.ca.us/schoolsites/terman/history.htm</ref> is presently located on 655 Arastradero Road in [[Palo Alto, California|Palo Alto]], [[California]] within the [[Palo Alto Unified School District]]. As far as middle schools go, Terman's competition is with JLS and Jordan Middle Schools.
After being closed for approximately two decades, the [[middle school]] re-opened its doors in 2001 with only a 6th grade class. In autumn of 2003, Terman moved to the Arastradero ___location and expanded to educate grades six through eight. The relocation was met with great controversy by local residents as the school overtook the land by ''[[eminent ___domain]]'' from the residing [[Jew|Jewish]] [[community center|Community Center]]. Many locals publicly criticized this move as a hostile takeover of the property. <ref>http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/news/2000_Sep_13.TERMAN.html</ref>
It was the first [[United Kingdom|British]] film to be nominated for the Academy Award for best picture.
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The film began in May [[1536]], contrasting the impending execution of Henry's second wife, [[Anne Boleyn]] ([[Merle Oberon]]), with his instant remarriage to her maid, the kind-hearted [[Jane Seymour]] ([[Wendy Barrie]]). The inspiration for this scene clearly came from the British historian, Agnes Strickland, who had vigorously criticised Henry and Jane for their treatment of the historical Anne.
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After Anne's execution, Henry (played by [[Charles Laughton]]), is married briefly to [[Jane Seymour|Queen Jane]] before her death in childbed eighteen months later. He is then remarried to a German princess, [[Anne of Cleves]], played on-screen by Laughton's real-life wife [[Elsa Lanchester]]. This marriage ends in divorce when [[Anne of Cleves|Anne]] deliberately makes herself unattractive so that she can be free to re-marry her sweetheart. After this divorce, Henry marries the beautiful and ambitious Lady [[Catherine Howard]] (Binnie Barnes). She has rejected love all her life in favour of ambition, but after her marriage she falls in love with Henry's handsome servant [[Thomas Culpepper]] ([[Robert Donat]]). Their adultery is never mentioned by name in the film, since American censors objected to it. In any case, their liaison is discovered by Henry's advisers and the couple are executed. Henry's final marriage to [[Catherine Parr]] receives less than five minutes of screentime.
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Historically, the film is wildly inaccurate - with the possible exception of the [[Anne Boleyn]] storyline at the beginning. Its presentation of the characters of [[Jane Seymour]] and [[Catherine Howard]] in particular are not true to fact. Nor does it portray Henry's first (and longest) marriage to the Spanish princess, [[Catherine of Aragon]]. It is famous for creating the public image of a jolly [[Henry VIII]] who gorged himself at public banquets and chased pretty women all day, which has tended to obscure the king's real-life brutality.
It was hugely successful as a commercial film and it advanced [[Alexander Korda]] and [[Charles Laughton]]'s careers. It was [[Merle Oberon]]'s first major film role and it began her rise to [[Hollywood]] stardom. Laughton would later reprise his role as [[Henry VIII]] in [[1953]] in the film ''[[Young Bess]]'' opposite [[Jean Simmons]] as a young [[Elizabeth I]]. ''The Private Life of Henry VIII'' was the only feature-length film to deal with all of Henry's wives until ''[[Henry VIII and his Six Wives]]'' in [[1973]]. This film was more accurate, since it spent time on all of Henry's queens (including [[Catherine of Aragon]].) This later movie starred [[Keith Michell]], [[Charlotte Rampling]], [[Jane Asher]], [[Lynne Frederick]] and [[Brian Blessed]].
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