The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Elizabeth I's love for the Earl of Essex threatens to destroy her kingdom.
106 min
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
- Release date
- November 11, 1939
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold
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Trailer
Cast
- Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth
- Errol Flynn as Earl of Essex
- Olivia de Havilland as Lady Penelope Gray
- Donald Crisp as Francis Bacon
- Alan Hale as Earl 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
- Guy Bellis as Lord Charles Howard (uncredited)
- 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)
Crew
- Michael Curtiz · Director
- Norman Reilly Raine · Writer
- Æneas MacKenzie · Writer
- Maxwell Anderson · Writer
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold · Composer
- Sol Polito · Cinematographer
- Owen Marks · Editor