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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

1939Feature film107 minVerification: Verified

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Production countries
United States
Languages
English
Genres
drama film · romance film · biographical film

Credits

Art department

Anton Grot — Production design

Cinematography

Sol Polito — Cinematography
W. Howard Greene — Cinematography

Costume

Orry-Kelly — Costume design

Direction

Michael Curtiz — Directing

Editing

Owen Marks — Editing

Music

Erich Wolfgang Korngold — Music composition

Cast

Bette Davis — Acting (Queen Elizabeth)
Errol Flynn — Acting (Earl of Essex)
Olivia de Havilland — Acting (Lady Penelope Gray)
Donald Crisp — Acting (Francis Bacon)
Alan Hale — Acting (Earl of Tyrone)
Vincent Price — Acting (Sir Walter Raleigh)
Henry Stephenson — Acting (Lord Burghley)
Henry Daniell — Acting (Sir Robert Cecil)
James Stephenson — Acting (Sir Thomas Egerton)
Leo G. Carroll — Acting (Sir Edward Coke)
Robert Warwick — Acting (Lord Mountjoy)
Doris Lloyd — Acting (Handmaiden)
I. Stanford Jolley — Acting (Spectator outside Whitehall Palace)
Nanette Fabray — Acting (Mistress Margaret Radcliffe)
Ralph Forbes — Acting (Lord Knollys)
John Sutton — Acting (Capt. Armand of the Queen's Guard)
Holmes Herbert — Acting (Majordomo)
Rosella Towne — Acting (Lady of the Court)
Guy Bellis — Acting (Lord Charles Howard)
Forrester Harvey — Acting (bit part)

Production

Hal B. Wallis — Production
Hal B. Wallis — Executive production

Writing

Norman Reilly Raine — Screenwriting
Æneas MacKenzie — Screenwriting
Maxwell Anderson — Screenwriting
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Distribution

Netflix

International
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