Mary Tudor, the first queen of England has never had a good reputation throughout history and this idea has translated onto film. All in all there have only been three films made centering on Mary and her story. These films are Marie Tudor (Capellani, 1917), Marie Tudor (Gance, 1966) and The Twisted Tale of Bloody Mary (Barnard, 2008).
However, the majority of the time when Mary is in films or TV shows about the Tudors, she is usually a minor character or features only as a cameo. In films such as Anne of the Thousand Days (Jarrott, 1969) or The Other Boleyn Girl (Chadwick, 2008) she is reduced...
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