The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

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

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

Drama History Romance

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)

Leo G. Carroll

(Sir Edward Coke)

Guy Bellis

(Lord Charles Howard (uncredited))

Jacob Dance

(Essex's Soldier (uncredited))

Forrester Harvey

(Bit Part (uncredited))

Holmes Herbert

(Majordomo (uncredited))

I. Stanford Jolley

(Spectator Outside Whitehall Palace (uncredited))

Doris Lloyd

(Handmaiden (uncredited))

John Sutton

(Capt. Armand of the Queen's Guard (uncredited))

Rosella Towne

(Lady of the Court (uncredited))

Maris Wrixon

(Lady of the Court (uncredited))