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Queen Mary I in TV & Movies
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| History has not been kind to Mary I, not since Richard III has a monarch been so consistently vilified in popular media - especially when compared to her Protestant half-siblings or her cousin Lady Jane Grey. |
 Kathy Burke as Queen Mary in Elizabeth (1998) Mary is portrayed as a hunched backed, ugly, bitter woman |  Gwen Davies as Mary in Tudor Rose (1936) Again Mary is an old and frightening woman compared to Jane Grey who is lovely by comparison. Mary is portrayed as self-righteous and unsympathetic in her decision to execute her cousin (historically she was). Clip |
 |  Queen Mary, as played by Jane Lapotaire, in Lady Jane (1986) is depicted as one of the villains of the story because of her role in sentencing the execution of Lady Jane Grey (Helena Bonham Carter) and Guilford Dudley (Cary Elwes) who are celebrated as ill-fated, young lovers (in reality they were not happily married as the movie romantically version sets them out to be and set out Mary to be evil when in reality perhaps she is the more human figure of all). Mary's rise to power is depicted in the film as the beginning of a dark time for England. Clip  |
 | Comments; a bit more even handed, but still casts Mary as an unsuccessful queencompared to Elizabeth to which some of the more educated public who feels that to put Mary in black and white compared to her father and sister is to have a retarded, backwards opinion, some prefer a gray opinion that the backwards opinion of black and white. Mary was in the end a Queen who was biased like those (quite ironic) who misjudged her were biased, she could not have the support because most of the great people, intelligent people who had the malice and had what it took of great genius, like those who helped her sister administer the states, Mary did not have that, the only thing she had were staunch Catholics who cared more about power than religion, unlike Mary who cared not more about power, but to her duty to God. For every 10 Mary killed , modernist, post modernist, feminist, Conservatives, Protestant, and many more argue she is not to be represented in the end that is how we want it to be, a bias world for an unsuccessful Queen. |
 The Twisted Tale of Bloody (2008) An independant docu-drama of the life of Mary. While some parts are over sensationalized, it gives equal time to Mary's childhood and adult years in an attempt to explain the Queen she became. Miranda French, Elizabeth Rees, and Natalia Plenlazek (right to left) all play Mary.  | More Positive Portrayals of Mary:  Alison Frazer in "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" Alison portrays Mary from 1536 to 1547. From the time Mary was returned to court after signing The Oath of Supremacy to the death of her father. (clip) |
 Marion Day in "The Royal Diaries: Elizabeth" This program is geared for young readers of the Royal Diaries book series by Scholastic Books. In it, Mary is portrayed as a wicked stepsister and erroneously is shown plotting the downfall of Catherine Parr (though they did not share the same religion they did get along). |  Nicola Pagett in "Anne of a Thousands Day" Mary's role was minimal in the film. Mary was also wrongly portrayed as being at her mother beside when Katherine died. |
 Constance Stride in "The Other Boleyn Girl" Mary's role short, appearing in the beginning of the movie. The movie inaccurately shows Mary at her mother's side after she delivers a stillborn infant. |  Daphne Slater in "Elizabeth R" Mary is portayed from Edward's death to her own. Daphne's portayal is historically accurate from accounts from her time. |
 Lisa as princess Mary in simpsons episode. |  Sarah Bolger as Princess Mary Tudor in "The Tudors" season 2&3 |
Operas about Mary Tudor: Maria, regina d'Inghilterra by Giovanni Pacini(Italy)1843  ![[Untitled]](http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/eq-FU_QfOjp_ZaADR1SMOw21242/GW329H236 "[Untitled]") the brazilian soprano Eliane Coelho in the opera "Maria Tudor" |
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| maryboleynfan | The Virgin Queen | 18 | Jul 18 2009, 4:34 PM EDT by BoleynGirl | ||
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Thread started: Mar 7 2009, 12:38 AM EST
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I have never seen The Virgin Queen but after seeing those photos of Mary and Elizabeth together I have to say that Mary was the prettier sister(about time)Elizabeths hairline is receeding, her face is too pale and gaunt considering she was the younger sister and she had wrinkles a plenty.
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| Jes89 | Please we need a "human" Mary!!!!!!! (page: 1 2 3) | 47 | May 26 2009, 3:43 AM EDT by Edwardfan123 | ||
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ok, watching this page, i saw how Mary is always portrayed as a bitter, ugly and cruel woman.
i'm so tired of it.I really hope that with this fairy acting of Sarah Bolger and the "human" side of her,that Micheal shows,can influence in some other movie, with her
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