![]() O’Toole was thirty-five at the time of his casting, and had to be aged to play the fifty-year-old King Henry II. The Var confirmed Levine’s involvement, and announced the casting of Peter O’Toole and Katharine Hepburn in the roles of “King Henry II” and “Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine,” originated onstage by Robert Preston and Rosemary Harris. Levine “snapped it up” within two days of hearing Poll’s plans. ![]() ![]() The LAT noted that Goldman initially turned down the job, on the grounds that he had never written a screenplay.Ī “Just for Variety” column in the DV stated that four major film studios declined the project, but Embassy Pictures’ Joseph E. James Goldman was brought on to adapt his own script. The following year, a Var news item announced that Martin Poll had acquired film rights, and planned to produce the film through his Marpol Productions. ![]() Reviews were mixed, and the Broadway run was set to end, after only ninety-two performances, on, according to a LAT item. James Goldman’s play, The Lion in Winter, opened on in Boston, MA, and on at the Ambassador Theatre on Broadway in New York City. ![]()
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