The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Elizabeth I's love for the Earl of Essex threatens to destroy her kingdom.
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
- Date of release
- 1939-11-11
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (102)
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Genres
- Drama, History, Romance
- Director
- Michael Curtiz
Casting
- 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
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