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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

1939·106 min

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

Directed by Michael Curtiz

DramaHistoryRomance

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

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Queen Elizabeth

The Earl of Essex

Olivia de Havilland

Lady Penelope Gray

Francis Bacon

Crew

Æneas MacKenzie

Screenplay

Norman Reilly Raine

Screenplay

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Original Music Composer

Director of Photography

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Alan Hale

The Prince of Tyrone

Sir Walter Raleigh

Henry Stephenson

Lord Burghley

Sir Robert Cecil

James Stephenson

Sir Thomas Egerton

Mistress Margaret Radcliffe

Lord Knollys

Lord Mountjoy

Sir Edward Coke

Lord Charles Howard (uncredited)

Essex's Soldier (uncredited)

Forrester Harvey

Bit Part (uncredited)

Majordomo (uncredited)

I. Stanford Jolley

Spectator Outside Whitehall Palace (uncredited)

Handmaiden (uncredited)

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

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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) is about this period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.

Who directed The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex?

Michael Curtiz directed The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939).

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