The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Film1939106 min6.3/10 on TMDB
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Directed by Michael Curtiz
Elizabeth I's love for the Earl of Essex threatens to destroy her kingdom.
The story
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Bette DavisQueen Elizabeth
Errol FlynnThe Earl of Essex
Olivia de HavillandLady Penelope Gray
Donald CrispFrancis Bacon
Alan HaleThe Prince of Tyrone
Vincent PriceSir Walter Raleigh
Henry StephensonLord Burghley
Henry DaniellSir Robert Cecil
James StephensonSir Thomas Egerton
Nanette FabrayMistress Margaret Radcliffe
Ralph ForbesLord Knollys
Robert WarwickLord MountjoyExplore the crew
- Director
- Michael Curtiz
- Screenplay
- Norman Reilly Raine
- Screenplay
- Aeneas MacKenzie
- Original Music Composer
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- Director of Photography
- Sol Polito
- Editor
- Owen Marks