Movie Lovers
The Movie Lovers Club meets once a month, on the second Tuesday of the month, in the Senior Lounge, first floor of the Ridgewood Village Hall at 1:30pm. We will watch little-known but excellent movies.
Everyone is invited to attend.
The club chairman is: Dick Oswald 447-4053.
Movie Lovers Club News
The next Movie Club Meeting is scheduled for TUESDAY NOVEMBER 4, 2025 at 1:30pm in the Senior Lounge of the Ridgewood Village Hall.
This month we will watch "The Private Life of Henry VIII" starring Charles Laughton, Binnie Barnes and Robert Donat.
Directed by Alexander Korda (1933, 97 min.)
The film begins 20 years into King Henry VIII's reign and covers the last 11 years of his marital life in a series of comedic vignettes.
In May 1536, in the immediate aftermath of the execution of his second wife Anne Boleyn, Henry marries Jane Seymour, who dies in childbirth 18 months later. He then weds a German princess, Anne of Cleves.
This marriage ends in divorce after Anne deliberately makes herself unattractive so that she may be free to marry her sweetheart. Henry next marries the beautiful and ambitious Lady Katherine Howard. She has rejected love all of her life in favour of ambition, but after her marriage, she falls in love with Henry's handsome courtier Thomas Culpeper, who had attempted to woo her in the past. Their liaison is discovered by Henry's court and the two are executed.
The weak and aging Henry consoles himself with a final marriage to Catherine Parr, who proves domineering.
In the final scene, while Parr is no longer in the room, the king breaks the fourth wall, saying "Six wives, and the best of them's the worst."