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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

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

1939 |1h 46m |  Drama, History, Romance

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Cast

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Bette Davis

Queen Elizabeth

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Errol Flynn

The Earl of Essex

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Olivia de Havilland

Lady Penelope Gray

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Donald Crisp

Francis Bacon

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Alan Hale

The Prince of Tyrone

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Vincent Price

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Henry Stephenson

Lord Burghley

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Henry Daniell

Sir Robert Cecil

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James Stephenson

Sir Thomas Egerton

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Nanette Fabray

Mistress Margaret Radcliffe

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Ralph Forbes

Lord Knollys

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Robert Warwick

Lord Mountjoy

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Leo G. Carroll

Sir Edward Coke

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Forrester Harvey

Bit Part (uncredited)

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Holmes Herbert

Majordomo (uncredited)

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I. Stanford Jolley

Spectator Outside Whitehall Palace (uncredited)

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Doris Lloyd

Handmaiden (uncredited)

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John Sutton

Capt. Armand of the Queen's Guard (uncredited)

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Rosella Towne

Lady of the Court (uncredited)

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Maris Wrixon

Lady of the Court (uncredited)

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Status

Released

Language

English, Italian

Budget

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Revenue

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