Young Bess
(1953)

A Great and Spectacular Drama!

Released: 1953-05-29

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The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her unexpected ascension to the throne at a mere 25. Charles Laughton reprises his Academy Award®-winning* role as her formidable father Henry VIII. Deborah Kerr plays her last stepmother (and Henry's last of six wives), gentle Catherine Parr. And Simmons' then real-life husband, Stewart Granger, adds heroics as Lord Admiral Thomas Seymour. In a resplendent world of adventure, romance and court intrigue, Young Bess reigns.

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Jean Simmons

as Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I)

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Stewart Granger

as Thomas Seymour

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Deborah Kerr

as Catherine Parr

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Charles Laughton

as King Henry VIII

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Kay Walsh

as Mrs. Ashley

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Guy Rolfe

as Ned Seymour

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Kathleen Byron

as Ann Seymour

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Cecil Kellaway

as Mr. Parry

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Rex Thompson

as Prince Edward / King Edward VI

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Norma Varden

as Lady Tyrwhitt

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Alan Napier

as Robert Tyrwhitt

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Noreen Corcoran

as Bess as a child

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Ivan Triesault

as Danish Envoy

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Elaine Stewart

as Anne Boleyn

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Dawn Addams

as Kate Howard

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Doris Lloyd

as Mother Jack

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Lumsden Hare

as Archbishop Cranmer

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Lester Matthews

as Sir William Paget

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Charles Rosher

Director of Photography

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George Rhein

Assistant Director

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Walter Plunkett

Costume Design

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Miklós Rózsa

Original Music Composer

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Cedric Gibbons

Art Direction

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Urie McCleary

Art Direction

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Jack D. Moore

Set Decoration

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Edwin B. Willis

Set Decoration

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Douglas Shearer

Recording Supervision

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