

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
"Elizabeth I's love for the Earl of Essex threatens to destroy her kingdom."
Overview
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
Movie Details
Languages
English
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Studio
Warner Bros. Pictures
Key Crew

Michael Curtiz
Director

Norman Reilly Raine
Screenplay

Hal B. Wallis
Executive Producer
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)