ON THIS DAY in 1957, François “Papa Doc” Duvalier was elected president of Haiti on a populist and Black Nationalist platform. THE COMEDIANS, a 1967 film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, and based on a Graham Greene novel, was set in Haiti during the Duvalier regime.
ON THIS DAY in 1532, Lady Anne Boleyn was made England’s Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII. In 1969, Genevieve Bujold portrayed Boleyn in the film, ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS, with Richard Burton as King Henry.
ON THIS DAY in 1172, Henry (“the Young King”), 17-year-old son of King Henry II, married Margaret of France and was crowned King of England. In 1964, he was portrayed by Riggs O’Hara in the film BECKET, directed by Peter Glenville, and starring Peter O’Toole and Richard Burton.
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