The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
19391h 46m6.3
Drama, History, Romance
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Genre
- Drama
- Certificate
- NR
- Origin
- United States of America
About
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.
Where to watch
With ads
Availability from JustWatch via TMDB.
Details
- Director
- Michael Curtiz
- Writing
- Norman Reilly Raine, Aeneas MacKenzie
- Status
- Released
- Released
- Nov 11, 1939
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
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)
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