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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

Elizabeth I's love for the Earl of Essex threatens to destroy her kingdom.

6.399 votes19391h 46mReleased

Drama
History
Romance

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

Director: Michael Curtiz
Released: 11 November 1939
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
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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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