The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

• 6.2 Drama
• 1939-11-11
• 106 minutes mins

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

Starring:

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)

Director:

Michael Curtiz

Writer:

Æneas MacKenzie Norman Reilly Raine