The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex 1939

Synopsis

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

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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

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