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.

• Æneas MacKenzieScreenplay
• Michael CurtizDirector
• Norman Reilly RaineScreenplay
• Erich Wolfgang KorngoldOriginal Music Composer

• Bette DavisQueen Elizabeth
• Errol FlynnThe Earl of Essex
• Olivia de HavillandLady Penelope Gray
• Donald CrispFrancis Bacon
• Alan HaleThe Prince of Tyrone
• Vincent PriceSir Walter Raleigh
• Henry StephensonLord Burghley
• Henry DaniellSir Robert Cecil
• James StephensonSir Thomas Egerton
• Nanette FabrayMistress Margaret Radcliffe
• Ralph ForbesLord Knollys
• Robert WarwickLord Mountjoy