The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

6.3/10 106 min Drama History Romance

Overview

This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.

Cast

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

Forrester Harvey

Bit Part (uncredited)

Holmes Herbert

Majordomo (uncredited)

I. Stanford Jolley

Spectator Outside Whitehall Palace (uncredited)

Doris Lloyd

Handmaiden (uncredited)

John Sutton

Capt. Armand of the Queen's Guard (uncredited)

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