The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Elizabeth I's love for the Earl of Essex threatens to destroy her kingdom.
6.3(99) 1939-11-11 106 minDramaHistoryRomance
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
ScreenplayNorman Reilly Raine
DirectorMichael Curtiz
ScreenplayÆneas MacKenzie
Original Music ComposerErich Wolfgang Korngold
Cast & characters
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
Leo G. Carroll
as Sir Edward Coke
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Guy Bellis
as Lord Charles Howard (uncredited)
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Jacob Dance
as Essex's Soldier (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)
