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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

Additional Information:

(1939) (USA) (3 Star)

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
Vincent Price	.... Sir Walter Raleigh

Supporting Cast:

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

Directors:

Michael Curtiz

Writers:

Maxwell Anderson
Norman Reilly Raine