The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Drama
History
Romance
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.
1939-11-11
en
Cast
Director
Michael Curtiz
Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth
Errol Flynn as The Earl of Essex
Olivia de Havilland as Lady Penelope Gray
Donald Crisp as Francis Bacon
Alan Hale as The Prince of Tyrone
Vincent Price as Sir Walter Raleigh
Henry Stephenson as Lord Burghley
Henry Daniell as Sir Robert Cecil
James Stephenson as Sir Thomas Egerton
Nanette Fabray as Mistress Margaret Radcliffe
Ralph Forbes as Lord Knollys
Robert Warwick as Lord Mountjoy
Leo G. Carroll as Sir Edward Coke
Forrester Harvey as Bit Part (uncredited)
Holmes Herbert as Majordomo (uncredited)
I. Stanford Jolley as Spectator Outside Whitehall Palace (uncredited)
Doris Lloyd as Handmaiden (uncredited)
John Sutton as Capt. Armand of the Queen's Guard (uncredited)
Rosella Towne as Lady of the Court (uncredited)
Maris Wrixon as Lady of the Court (uncredited)