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.

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  Michael Curtiz
• 
  Sherry Shourds

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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
• 
  Guy Bellis
  Lord Charles Howard (uncredited)
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  Jacob Dance
  Essex's Soldier (uncredited)
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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)