The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939
Director: Michael Curtiz
Writer: Maxwell Anderson (play Elizabeth the Queen) - Norman Reilly Raine and Æneas MacKenzie
Producer: Robert Lord
Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Christopher Marlowe (song "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (Come Live With Me and Be My Love)")
Costume: Orry-Kelly
Makeup: Perc Westmore
Forced to choose between her Kingdom and her lover, Davis' monarch is the epitome of a regal women. Fabray made her first film appearance as an adult in this adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's 1930 play
Cast List:
Bette Davis | .... | Queen Elizabeth I |
Errol Flynn | .... | Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex |
Olivia de Havilland | .... | Lady Penelope Gray |
Donald Crisp | .... | Francis Bacon |
Alan Hale | .... | Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone |
Vincent Price | .... | Sir Walter Ralegh |
Henry Stephenson | .... | Lord Burghley |
Henry Daniell | .... | Sir Robert Cecil |
James Stephenson | .... | Sir Thomas Egerton |
Nanette Fabray | .... | Mistress Margaret Radcliffe (as Nanette Fabares) |
Ralph Forbes | .... | Lord Knollys |
Robert Warwick | .... | Lord Mountjoy |
Leo G. Carroll | .... | Sir Edward Coke |
Guy Bellis | .... | Lord Charles Howard |
Forrester Harvey | .... | Bit Part |
I. Stanford Jolley | .... | Bit Part |
Doris Lloyd | .... | Handmaiden |
John Sutton | .... | Captain Armand of the Queen's Guard |
Rosella Towne | .... | Lady of the Court |
Maris Wrixon | .... | Lady of the Court |