The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
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1939
Director: Michael Curtiz
Writer: Maxwell Anderson (play Elizabeth the Queen) - Norman Reilly Raine and Æneas MacKenzie
Producer: Robert Lord
Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Christopher Marlowe (song "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (Come Live With Me and Be My Love)")
Costume: Orry-Kelly
Makeup: Perc Westmore
Forced to choose between her Kingdom and her lover, Davis' monarch is the epitome of a regal women. Fabray made her first film appearance as an adult in this adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's 1930 play
Cast List:
| Bette Davis | .... | Queen Elizabeth I |
| Errol Flynn | .... | Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex |
| Olivia de Havilland | .... | Lady Penelope Gray |
| Donald Crisp | .... | Francis Bacon |
| Alan Hale | .... | Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone |
| Vincent Price | .... | Sir Walter Ralegh |
| Henry Stephenson | .... | Lord Burghley |
| Henry Daniell | .... | Sir Robert Cecil |
| James Stephenson | .... | Sir Thomas Egerton |
| Nanette Fabray | .... | Mistress Margaret Radcliffe (as Nanette Fabares) |
| Ralph Forbes | .... | Lord Knollys |
| Robert Warwick | .... | Lord Mountjoy |
| Leo G. Carroll | .... | Sir Edward Coke |
| Guy Bellis | .... | Lord Charles Howard |
| Forrester Harvey | .... | Bit Part |
| I. Stanford Jolley | .... | Bit Part |
| Doris Lloyd | .... | Handmaiden |
| John Sutton | .... | Captain Armand of the Queen's Guard |
| Rosella Towne | .... | Lady of the Court |
| Maris Wrixon | .... | Lady of the Court |
