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Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1954 | George
Cast as on-screen lovers Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I) and Sir Thomas Seymour, in real life Jean Simmons and Stewart Granger were married to each other when this movie was filmed. Granger (né James Stewart) and Simmons met in 1946 while working on the picture Caesar and Cleopatra (1945). They would meet again over a year later, with Simmons now a grown up 18. The relationship soon turned to romance, and the couple appeared in a film together in 1949 that reflected their own situation. In Adam and Evalyn (1949), Granger plays a man in love with a younger woman. A few years later, after divorcing his first wife, Granger and Jean married on December 20, 1950. He was 27. The bride was 21. They also appeared together in Footsteps in the Fog (1955).Simmons said of her scenes with Granger in Young Bess, "I feel more self-conscious about playing love scenes with him now, than I did before we were man and wife." But the chemistry flourished on screen.
The second time that actor Charles Laughton played Henry VIII on film. The first was The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) for which he won an Oscar as Best Actor twenty years earlier.
Jean Simmons almost didn't get the part of Elizabeth because she was considered too pretty.
Deborah Kerr (Catherine Parr) and Rex Thompson (young Prince Edward) played mother and son in The King and I (1956).
This was young Rex Thompson's film debut as Prince Edward/King Edward VI. He turned in a truly engaging performance as the ill-fated young King of England, remarkable considering he was only nine years old when filming began in October 1952, and was not British but a native New Yorker.
"Prince Edward: [muttering to Tom about Uncle Ned, who rules while Edward is King as a minor] I wish he'd die. Thomas Seymour: What? What was that? Prince Edward: I said, I wish he'd die. D-Y-E. Thomas Seymour: It's the wrong spelling. Prince Edward: [nonchalant] Oh, is it? Ned Seymour: What is Your Majesty talking about? Prince Edward: Spelling. Nobody knows for certain how to spell the King's English. Ned Seymour: The spelling is not important, so long as the word carries the right meaning. Thomas Seymour: The word His Majesty had *exactly* the right meaning."
"Ann Seymour: Do not attempt to confuse me by using words beyond my understanding. Young Bess: I am sorry, madame, but they are difficult to avoid."
