The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
- Released
- 1939-11-11
- Genres
- Drama, History, Romance
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Michael Curtiz, Norman Reilly Raine, Aeneas MacKenzie
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 from 105 votes
Cast
- Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth
- Errol Flynn as The Earl of Essex
- Olivia de Havilland as Lady Penelope Gray
- Donald Crisp as Francis Bacon
- Alan Hale as The Prince 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