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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Released: November 11, 1939 (1939)
Runtime: 106 minutes
Genres: Drama, History, Romance
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)
- Henry Stephenson as Lord Burghley
Age at release: 68
- Donald Crisp as Francis Bacon
Age at release: 57
- James Stephenson as Sir Thomas Egerton
Age at release: 50
- Alan Hale as The Prince of Tyrone
Age at release: 47
- Henry Daniell as Sir Robert Cecil
Age at release: 45
- Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth
Age at release: 31
- Errol Flynn as The Earl of Essex
Age at release: 30
- Vincent Price as Sir Walter Raleigh
Age at release: 28
- Olivia de Havilland as Lady Penelope Gray
Age at release: 23
- Nanette Fabray as Mistress Margaret Radcliffe
Age at release: 19
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- Robert Warwick as Lord Mountjoy
Age at release: 61
- Holmes Herbert as Majordomo (uncredited)
Age at release: 57
- Forrester Harvey as Bit Part (uncredited)
Age at release: 55
- Leo G. Carroll as Sir Edward Coke
Age at release: 53
- Doris Lloyd as Handmaiden (uncredited)
Age at release: 48
- I. Stanford Jolley as Spectator Outside Whitehall Palace (uncredited)
Age at release: 39
- Ralph Forbes as Lord Knollys
Age at release: 35
- John Sutton as Capt. Armand of the Queen's Guard (uncredited)
Age at release: 31
- Maris Wrixon as Lady of the Court (uncredited)
Age at release: 22
- Rosella Towne as Lady of the Court (uncredited)
Age at release: 21
- Guy Bellis as Lord Charles Howard (uncredited)
Age at release: Unknown
- Jacob Dance as Essex's Soldier (uncredited)
Age at release: Unknown