The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939-11-11This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.

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

Queen Elizabeth
Bette Davis

The Earl of Essex
Errol Flynn

Lady Penelope Gray
Olivia de Havilland

Francis Bacon
Donald Crisp

The Prince of Tyrone
Alan Hale

Sir Walter Raleigh
Vincent Price

Lord Burghley
Henry Stephenson

Sir Robert Cecil
Henry Daniell

Sir Thomas Egerton
James Stephenson

Mistress Margaret Radcliffe
Nanette Fabray

Lord Knollys
Ralph Forbes

Lord Mountjoy
Robert Warwick

Sir Edward Coke
Leo G. Carroll
Lord Charles Howard (uncredited)
Guy Bellis
Essex's Soldier (uncredited)
Jacob Dance

Bit Part (uncredited)
Forrester Harvey

Majordomo (uncredited)
Holmes Herbert

Spectator Outside Whitehall Palace (uncredited)
I. Stanford Jolley

Handmaiden (uncredited)
Doris Lloyd

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

Lady of the Court (uncredited)
Rosella Towne

Lady of the Court (uncredited)
Maris Wrixon