
106 minutes
11/11/1939
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.

Bette Davis
as Queen Elizabeth

Errol Flynn
as The Earl of Essex

Olivia de Havilland
as Lady Penelope Gray

Donald Crisp
as Francis Bacon

Alan Hale
as The Prince of Tyrone

Vincent Price
as Sir Walter Raleigh

Henry Stephenson
as Lord Burghley

Henry Daniell
as Sir Robert Cecil

James Stephenson
as Sir Thomas Egerton

Nanette Fabray
as Mistress Margaret Radcliffe

Ralph Forbes
as Lord Knollys

Robert Warwick
as Lord Mountjoy

Leo G. Carroll
as Sir Edward Coke
Guy Bellis
as Lord Charles Howard (uncredited)
Jacob Dance
as Essex's Soldier (uncredited)

Forrester Harvey
as Bit Part (uncredited)

Holmes Herbert
as Majordomo (uncredited)

I. Stanford Jolley
as Spectator Outside Whitehall Palace (uncredited)

Doris Lloyd
as Handmaiden (uncredited)

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

Rosella Towne
as Lady of the Court (uncredited)

Maris Wrixon
as Lady of the Court (uncredited)