The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
Director:
Michael Curtiz
Writers:
Norman Reilly Raine, Æneas MacKenzie.
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Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth |
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Errol Flynn as The Earl of Essex |
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Olivia de Havilland as Lady Penelope Gray |
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Donald Crisp as Francis Bacon |
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Alan Hale as The Prince of Tyrone |
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Vincent Price as Sir Walter Raleigh |
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Henry Stephenson as Lord Burghley |
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Henry Daniell as Sir Robert Cecil |
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James Stephenson as Sir Thomas Egerton |
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Nanette Fabray as Mistress Margaret Radcliffe |
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Ralph Forbes as Lord Knollys |
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Robert Warwick as Lord Mountjoy |
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Leo G. Carroll as Sir Edward Coke |
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Guy Bellis as Lord Charles Howard (uncredited) |
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Jacob Dance as Essex's Soldier (uncredited) |
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Forrester Harvey as Bit Part (uncredited) |
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Holmes Herbert as Majordomo (uncredited) |
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I. Stanford Jolley as Spectator Outside Whitehall Palace (uncredited) |
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Doris Lloyd as Handmaiden (uncredited) |
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John Sutton as Capt. Armand of the Queen's Guard (uncredited) |
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Rosella Towne as Lady of the Court (uncredited) |
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Maris Wrixon as Lady of the Court (uncredited) |
| Directing | Michael Curtiz | Director |
| Writing | Norman Reilly Raine | Screenplay |
| Writing | Æneas MacKenzie | Screenplay |
| Writing | Maxwell Anderson | Theatre Play |
| Production | Jack L. Warner | Executive In Charge Of Production |
| Crew | Byron Haskin | Special Effects |
| Crew | Hans F. Koenekamp | Special Effects |
| Art | W. Howard Greene | Assistant Director of Photography |
| Sound | Leo F. Forbstein | Music Director |
| Sound | Hugo Friedhofer | Orchestrator |
| Sound | Milan Roder | Orchestrator |
| Crew | Ali Hubert | Technical Advisor |
| Production | Robert Lord | Associate Producer |
| Production | Hal B. Wallis | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Erich Wolfgang Korngold | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Sol Polito | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Owen Marks | Editor |
| Art | Anton Grot | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | Orry-Kelly | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Perc Westmore | Makeup Artist |
| Directing | Sherry Shourds | Assistant Director |
| Sound | C.A. Riggs | Sound |
