The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
62 %|Nov 11, 1939|Drama, History, Romance
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
Featured Crew
Norman Reilly Raine
Screenplay
Michael Curtiz
Director
Æneas MacKenzie
Screenplay
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Original Music Composer
C.A. Riggs
Sound
Anton Grot
Art Direction
Sol Polito
Director of Photography
Robert Lord
Associate Producer
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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
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)
Rosella Towne
Lady of the Court (uncredited)
Maris Wrixon
Lady of the Court (uncredited)