The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
In Theaters
November 11, 1939
Runtime: 1h 46m
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
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Cast & Crew
Bette Davis
Queen Elizabeth
Errol Flynn
The Earl of Essex
Olivia de Havilland
Lady Penelope Gray
Donald Crisp
Francis Bacon
Alan Hale
The Prince of Tyrone
Vincent Price
Sir Walter Raleigh
Henry Stephenson
Lord Burghley
Henry Daniell
Sir Robert Cecil
James Stephenson
Sir Thomas Egerton
Nanette Fabray
Mistress Margaret Radcliffe
Ralph Forbes
Lord Knollys
Robert Warwick
Lord Mountjoy
Leo G. Carroll
Sir Edward Coke
- GB
Guy Bellis
Lord Charles Howard (uncredited)
- JD
Jacob Dance
Essex's Soldier (uncredited)
Forrester Harvey
Bit Part (uncredited)
Holmes Herbert
Majordomo (uncredited)
I. Stanford Jolley
Spectator Outside Whitehall Palace (uncredited)
Michael Curtiz
Director
Aeneas MacKenzie
Screenplay
Norman Reilly Raine
Screenplay
Media
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