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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex(Film,1939)

TCMTuesday, November 4th, 20081:00pm to 3:00pm(Other show times...)

film icon 3 star rating Certficate U
Watch the sparks fly between Errol Flynn and Bette Davis in this epic costume drama tracing the tempestuous relationship between Elizabeth I and her ambitious but flawed favourite, the Earl of Essex. Michael Curtiz directs with customary panache.Keywords: Drama, Romance, Biographical, Biography, Movie, Film, Movies, Films
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Cast

Bette Davis...Queen Elizabeth I
Errol Flynn...Robert Devereux Earl of Essex
Olivia de Havilland...Lady Penelope Gray
Donald Crisp...Francis Bacon
Alan Hale Jr....Hugh O'Neill Earl of Tyrone
Image for Vincent PriceVincent 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

Directed by

Michael Curtiz

Written by

Maxwell Anderson
Norman Reilly Raine

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