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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Directed by Michael Curtiz
“Elizabeth I's love for the Earl of Essex threatens to destroy her kingdom.”
Drama, History, Romance · 1h 46m
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
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
Crew
- Director
- Michael Curtiz
- Screenplay
- Norman Reilly Raine, Aeneas MacKenzie
- Director of Photography
- Sol Polito
- Original Music Composer
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- Editor
- Owen Marks
Details
- Release date
- 1939-11-11
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Genres
- Drama, History, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Italian
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Warner Bros. Pictures