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The Sword and the Rose, (first released on July 23, 1953) is a United States family and adventure film, produced by Disney and directed by Ken Annakin. The film features the story of Mary Tudor, a younger sister of Henry VIII of England.

Based on the 1898 novel When Knighthood Was in Flower by Charles Major, it was originally made into a motion picture in 1908 and again in 1922. The 1953 Disney version was adapted for the screen by Lawrence Edward Watkin. In 1956, it was broadcast on American television in two parts under the original book title.

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Game

An unrelated Amiga computer game has the same name.

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July 23 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

Events

  • 1632 - 300 colonists bound for New France depart Dieppe, France.

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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1920s  1930s  1940s  - 1950s -  1960s  1970s  1980s
1950 1951 1952 - 1953 - 1954 1955 1956

Year 1953 (MCMLIII
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Motto
"In God We Trust"   (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
Anthem
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Walt Disney Pictures

Subsidiary
Founded Burbank, California, USA (1983)
Headquarters Burbank, California, USA

Key people Dick Cook, Chairman
Oren Aviv, President

Industry Motion pictures
Revenue
Operating income
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Ken Annakin (born August 10, 1914 in Beverley, Yorkshire) is an English film director. His career in films followed his work experience in documentaries. He made his directing debut in 1947 at the Rank Organisation, although the following year he moved to Gainsborough Pictures to
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Mary Rose Tudor (March 18 1496 – June 25 1533) was the younger sister of Henry VIII of England and queen consort of France due to her marriage to Louis XII. After his death, she married Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk.
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Henry VIII
King of England, King of Ireland, Prince of Wales

Reign 22 April1509 – 28 January1547
Coronation 24 June 1509
Born 28 May 1491(1491--)
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-1898- 1899 1900 1901  1902 .  1903 .  1904 .  1905  . 1906  . 1907  . 1908 

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When Knighthood Was in Flower is the debut novel of American author Charles Major written under the pseudonym, Edwin Caskoden. It was first published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1898 and proved an enormous success.
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Charles Major (born July 25, 1856; died February 13 1913) was an American lawyer and novelist.

Born to an upper-middle class Indianapolis family, Major developed in interest in both law and English history at an early age and attended the University of Michigan from 1872
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Lawrence Edward Watkin

Lawrence Edward Watkin (9th December, 1901 in New York, (NY) - 16th December, 1981 in San Joaquin County, California) was an US-American author and scriptwriter. He has become known especially as a scriptwriter for a series of Walt Disney films of the 1950s.
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Television (often abbreviated to TV, T.V., or more recently, tv; sometimes called telly, the tube, boob tube, or idiot box in British English) is a widely used telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures
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Mary Rose Tudor (March 18 1496 – June 25 1533) was the younger sister of Henry VIII of England and queen consort of France due to her marriage to Louis XII. After his death, she married Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk.
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Glynis Johns

Born September 5 1923 (1923--) (age 84)
Pretoria, South Africa
Died

Spouse(s) Anthony Forwood

Awards

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Henry VIII
King of England, King of Ireland, Prince of Wales

Reign 22 April1509 – 28 January1547
Coronation 24 June 1509
Born 28 May 1491(1491--)
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James Robertson Justice

Birth name James Norval Harald Robertson-Justice
Born May 15 1907(1907--)
Lewisham, England
Died July 2 1975
Winchester, England
Resting place
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Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (c. 1484 – August 24 1545) was the son of Sir William Brandon and Elizabeth Bruyn. His father was the standard-bearer of Henry VII and was slain by Richard III in person on Bosworth Field.
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Richard Todd

from the trailer for Stage Fright (1950).
Birth name Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd
Born May 11 1919 (1919--) (age 88)
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Not to be confused with Earl of Buckinghamshire.
The titles Marquess and Duke of Buckingham, referring to Buckingham, have been created several times in the peerages of England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom.
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Michael Gough

Birth name Michael Gough
Born November 23 1914 (1914--) (age 94)
Malaya
Died

Awards
Academy Awards
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Peter Copley (born 20 May 1915 in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England) is an actor, best remembered for his appearances on television.

Biography

After changing his mind about joining the Royal Navy, Copley started out as a stage actor, in 1932.
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Louis XII the Father of his People
King of France, Count of Provence (more…)

Reign 7 April 1498 – 1 January 1515
Coronation 27 May 1498, Reims
Titles Duke of Orléans and Valois (1465–98)
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Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, (c. March 1471-1475 – November 28 or November 29, 1530), born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, was a powerful English statesman and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

When Henry VIII became king in 1509, Wolsey's affairs prospered.
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Dauphin of France (French:Dauphin de France)—strictly, Dauphin of Viennois (Dauphin de Viennois)—was the title given to the heir apparent of the throne of France from 1350 to 1791, and from 1824 to 1830.
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Gérard Oury

Birth name Max-Gérard Houry
Born April 29, 1919
Paris, France
Died July 20, 2006
Saint-Tropez, France

Years active 1942 - 2003
Spouse(s) Michèle Morgan (1960-2006)

Gérard Oury
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Catherine of Aragon

Born 16 November 1485(1485--)
Laredo Palace, Alcala de Henares,Spain
Died 7 January 1536 (aged 52)
Kimbolton Castle, Cambridgeshire
Consort to
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Rosalie Crutchley (b. January 4, 1920 in London - d. July 28, 1997 in London) was an English actress.

Trained at the Royal Academy of Music, Crutchley was best known for her television performances, but had a long and successful career in the theatre and in films, making her
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