A Great and Spectacular Drama!
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her unexpected ascension to the throne at a mere 25. Charles Laughton reprises his Academy Award®-winning* role as her formidable father Henry VIII. Deborah Kerr plays her last stepmother (and Henry's last of six wives), gentle Catherine Parr. And Simmons' then real-life husband, Stewart Granger, adds heroics as Lord Admiral Thomas Seymour. In a resplendent world of adventure, romance and court intrigue, Young Bess reigns.
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Cast
- Jean SimmonsYoung Bess (Queen Elizabeth I)
- Stewart GrangerThomas Seymour
- Deborah KerrCatherine Parr
- Charles LaughtonKing Henry VIII
- Kay WalshMrs. Ashley
- Guy RolfeNed Seymour
- Kathleen ByronAnn Seymour
- Cecil KellawayMr. Parry
- Rex ThompsonPrince Edward / King Edward VI
- Robert ArthurBarnaby
Crew
- George SidneyDirector
- Arthur WimperisScreenplay
- Jan LustigScreenplay
- Margaret IrwinNovel
- Charles RosherDirector of Photography
- Miklós RózsaOriginal Music Composer
- Ralph E. WintersEditor
- Sidney FranklinProducer
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