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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex(1939)

Elizabeth I's love for the Earl of Essex threatens to destroy her kingdom.

6.3(98)1h 46m1939-11-11

DramaHistoryRomance

Overview

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

Director:: Michael Curtiz
Writers:: Norman Reilly Raine, Æneas MacKenzie, Maxwell Anderson
Cinematographer:: Sol Polito
Composer:: Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Production:: Warner Bros. Pictures
Status:: Released

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Cast

Bette Davis

Bette Davis

Queen Elizabeth

Errol Flynn

Errol Flynn

The Earl of Essex

Olivia de Havilland

Olivia de Havilland

Lady Penelope Gray

Donald Crisp

Donald Crisp

Francis Bacon

Alan Hale

Alan Hale

The Prince of Tyrone

Vincent Price

Vincent Price

Sir Walter Raleigh

Henry Stephenson

Henry Stephenson

Lord Burghley

Henry Daniell

Henry Daniell

Sir Robert Cecil

James Stephenson

James Stephenson

Sir Thomas Egerton

Nanette Fabray

Nanette Fabray

Mistress Margaret Radcliffe

Ralph Forbes

Ralph Forbes

Lord Knollys

Robert Warwick

Robert Warwick

Lord Mountjoy