 Although "Anne of the Thousand Days" opened on Broadway in 1948, it  had to wait until 1969 to be filmed, due to its frank discussions of  adultery, illegitimacy, and incest, on which the storyline relies  heavily. The old censorship code still existed in the 1940s and  1950s, and would not have allowed a play in which these subjects  were discussed to be filmed, no matter how tastefully.