1936
Director: John Ford
Writer: Maxwell Anderson (play) Dudley Nichols (screenplay)
Producer: Pandro S. Berman
Music: Nathaniel Shilkret
Art Directior: Van Nest Polglase
Costume Design: Walter Plunkett
Makeup: Mel Berns
Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to rule as queen, to the chagrin of
Elizabeth I of England who finds her a dangerous rival... Katharine Hepburn
plays the young queen in this John Ford version of the rivalry between Mary of
Scots and her cousin, Elizabeth I (played by Florence Eldridge; whose husband
Fredric March plays a jaunty Lord Bothwell).
Cast List:
| Katharine Hepburn | .... | Mary, Queen of Scots |
| Fredric March | .... | James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell |
| Florence Eldridge | .... | Queen Elizabeth I |
| Douglas Walton | .... | Lord Darnley |
| John Carradine | .... | David Rizzio |
| Robert Barrat | .... | Lord Morton |
| Gavin Muir | .... | Earl of Leicester |
| Ian Keith | .... | James Stuart, Earl of Moray |
| Moroni Olsen | .... | John Knox |
| William Stack | .... | Lord Ruthven |
| Ralph Forbes | .... | Lord Randolph, Ambassador to Scotland |
| Alan Mowbray | .... | Lord Throckmorton, Ambassador to Scotland |
| Frieda Inescort | .... | Mary Beaton, Mary's Lady-in-Waiting |
| Donald Crisp | .... | Huntly |
| David Torrence | .... | Lindsay |
| Molly Lamont | .... | Mary Livingstone, Mary's Lady-in-Waiting |
| Anita Colby | .... | Mary Fleming, Mary's Lady-in-Waiting |
| Jean Fenwick | .... | Mary Seton, Mary's Lady-in-Waiting |
| Lionel Pape | .... | Lord Burghley |
| Alec Craig | .... | Donal |
| Mary Gordon | .... | Nurse to Prince James |
| Monte Blue | .... | Messenger |
| Leonard Mudie | .... | Maitland |
| Brandon Hurst | .... | Airan |
| Wilfred Lucas | .... | Lexington |
| D'Arcy Corrigan | .... | Kirkcaldy |
| Frank Baker | .... | Douglas |
| Cyril McLaglen | .... | Faudoncide |
| Doris Lloyd | .... | Fisherman's Wife |
| Robert Warwick | .... | Sir Francis Knollys |
| Murray Kinnell | .... | Judge |
| Lawrence Grant | .... | Judge |
| Ivan F. Simpson | .... | Judge (as Ivan Simpson) |
| Nigel De Brulier | .... | Judge (as Nigel de Brulier) |
| Barlowe Borland | .... | Judge |
| Walter Byron | .... | Sir Francis Walsingham |
| Wyndham Standing | .... | Sergeant-at-Arms |
| Earle Foxe | .... | Earl of Kent |
| Paul McAllister | .... | du Croche |
| Lionel Belmore | .... | Fisherman |
| Gaston Glass | .... | Chatelard, a Frenchman |
| Neil Fitzgerald | .... | Nobleman |
| Frank Anthony | .... | Man (uncredited) |
| John Blood | .... | Man (uncredited) |
| Al Bridge | .... | (uncredited) |
| Tommy Bupp | .... | Boy in Boat (uncredited) |
| David Clyde | .... | (uncredited) |
| Hallam Cooley | .... | (uncredited) |
| Jean De Briac | .... | Man (uncredited) |
| Harvey D'Roulle Foster | .... | Man (uncredited) |
| Jerry Frank | .... | (uncredited) |
| Bud Geary | .... | (uncredited) |
| Douglas Gerrard | .... | (uncredited) |
| Hilda Grenier | .... | Woman (uncredited) |
| Winter Hall | .... | (uncredited) |
| Halliwell Hobbes | .... | Man (uncredited) |
| Robert Homans | .... | Jailer (uncredited) |
| Shep Houghton | .... | Soldier (uncredited) |
| Maxine Jennings | .... | Woman (uncredited) |
| Jean Kircher | .... | Prince James (uncredited) |
| Judith Kircher | .... | Prince James (uncredited) |
| Fred Malatesta | .... | Man (uncredited) |
| G.L. McDonnell | .... | Man (uncredited) |
| Wedgwood Nowell | .... | Queen Elizabeth's Majordomo (uncredited) |
| Father Raemers | .... | Man (uncredited) |
| Bob Ryan | .... | Man (uncredited) |
| Leslie Sketchley | .... | (uncredited) |
| Wingate Smith | .... | (uncredited) |
| Pat Somerset | .... | Mary's Majordomo (uncredited) |
| Harry Tenbrook | .... | One of Queen Mary's Guards (uncredited) |
| John Tyke | .... | Man (uncredited) |
| Billy Watson | .... | Boy (uncredited) |
| Bobs Watson | .... | Fisherman's Son (uncredited) |
| Niles Welch | .... | Man (uncredited) |