The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

1939 · Movie

106 min English

102 votes

DramaHistoryRomance

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

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Showing 10 of 40 countries.

Cast, directors & writers

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

Guy Bellis

Lord Charles Howard (uncredited)

Jacob Dance

Essex's Soldier (uncredited)

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)

Michael Curtiz

Director

Norman Reilly Raine

Writer

Aeneas MacKenzie

Writer

Maxwell Anderson

Writer

Keywords

queen queen elizabeth i tudor earl 16th century british monarchy

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