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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

“Elizabeth I's love for the Earl of Essex threatens to destroy her kingdom.”

12 · 11 Nov 1939 · 106 min · English

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The film

Synopsis

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

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Cast & characters

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

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Key crew

Director: Michael Curtiz
Writing: Æneas MacKenzie, Norman Reilly Raine, Maxwell Anderson
Cinematography: Sol Polito
Original music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

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