The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
(1939)

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

Released: 1939-11-11

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

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Bette Davis

as Queen Elizabeth

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Errol Flynn

as The Earl of Essex

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Olivia de Havilland

as Lady Penelope Gray

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Donald Crisp

as Francis Bacon

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Alan Hale

as The Prince of Tyrone

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Vincent Price

as Sir Walter Raleigh

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Henry Stephenson

as Lord Burghley

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Henry Daniell

as Sir Robert Cecil

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James Stephenson

as Sir Thomas Egerton

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Nanette Fabray

as Mistress Margaret Radcliffe

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Ralph Forbes

as Lord Knollys

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Robert Warwick

as Lord Mountjoy

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Leo G. Carroll

as Sir Edward Coke

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Guy Bellis

as Lord Charles Howard (uncredited)

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Jacob Dance

as Essex's Soldier (uncredited)

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Forrester Harvey

as Bit Part (uncredited)

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Holmes Herbert

as Majordomo (uncredited)

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I. Stanford Jolley

as Spectator Outside Whitehall Palace (uncredited)

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Doris Lloyd

as Handmaiden (uncredited)

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John Sutton

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

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Michael Curtiz

Director

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Norman Reilly Raine

Screenplay

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Æneas MacKenzie

Screenplay

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Maxwell Anderson

Theatre Play

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Jack L. Warner

Executive In Charge Of Production

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Byron Haskin

Special Effects

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Hans F. Koenekamp

Special Effects

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W. Howard Greene

Assistant Director of Photography

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Leo F. Forbstein

Music Director

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Hugo Friedhofer

Orchestrator

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Milan Roder

Orchestrator

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Ali Hubert

Technical Advisor

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Robert Lord

Associate Producer

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Hal B. Wallis

Executive Producer

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Original Music Composer

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Sol Polito

Director of Photography

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Owen Marks

Editor

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Anton Grot

Art Direction

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Orry-Kelly

Costume Design

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Perc Westmore

Makeup Artist

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