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.
Cast
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)
Crew
Æneas MacKenzie
Screenplay
Michael Curtiz
Director
Norman Reilly Raine
Screenplay
Hans F. Koenekamp
Special Effects
Maxwell Anderson
Theatre Play
W. Howard Greene
Assistant Director of Photography
Leo F. Forbstein
Music Director
Jack L. Warner
Executive In Charge Of Production
Hugo Friedhofer
Orchestrator
Byron Haskin
Special Effects
Milan Roder
Orchestrator
Ali Hubert
Technical Advisor
Anton Grot
Art Direction
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Original Music Composer
Orry-Kelly
Costume Design
C.A. Riggs
Sound
Owen Marks
Editor
Robert Lord
Associate Producer
Perc Westmore
Makeup Artist
Sherry Shourds
Assistant Director
Hal B. Wallis
Executive Producer
Sol Polito
Director of Photography