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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

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Calorie Rating: 149
Released: 1939-11-11
MPAA Rating: NR
Running Time: 106 Minutes
Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures,

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

Director / Directors

Michael Curtiz

Director

Sherry Shourds

Assistant Director

Cast

Bette Davis

Character: Queen Elizabeth

Errol Flynn

Character: The Earl of Essex

Olivia de Havilland

Character: Lady Penelope Gray

Donald Crisp

Character: Francis Bacon

Alan Hale

Character: The Prince of Tyrone

Vincent Price

Character: Sir Walter Raleigh

Henry Stephenson

Character: Lord Burghley

Henry Daniell

Character: Sir Robert Cecil

James Stephenson

Character: Sir Thomas Egerton

Nanette Fabray

Character: Mistress Margaret Radcliffe

Ralph Forbes

Character: Lord Knollys

Robert Warwick

Character: Lord Mountjoy

Leo G. Carroll

Character: Sir Edward Coke

Guy Bellis

Character: Lord Charles Howard (uncredited)

Jacob Dance

Character: Essex's Soldier (uncredited)

Forrester Harvey

Character: Bit Part (uncredited)

Holmes Herbert

Character: Majordomo (uncredited)

I. Stanford Jolley

Character: Spectator Outside Whitehall Palace (uncredited)

Doris Lloyd

Character: Handmaiden (uncredited)

John Sutton

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

Rosella Towne

Character: Lady of the Court (uncredited)

Maris Wrixon

Character: Lady of the Court (uncredited)

Production and Crew

Æneas MacKenzie

Screenplay

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

Hal B. Wallis

Executive Producer

Sol Polito

Director of Photography