The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Drama · History · Romance
Overview
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
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