The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
(1939)Cast
Bette Davis
Queen Elizabeth
Errol Flynn
The Earl of Essex
Olivia de Havilland
Lady Penelope Gray
Donald Crisp
Francis Bacon
Alan Hale
The Prince of Tyrone
Vincent Price
Sir Walter Raleigh
Henry Stephenson
Lord Burghley
Henry Daniell
Sir Robert Cecil
James Stephenson
Sir Thomas Egerton
Nanette Fabray
Mistress Margaret Radcliffe
Ralph Forbes
Lord Knollys
Robert Warwick
Lord Mountjoy
Leo G. Carroll
Sir Edward Coke
Guy Bellis
Lord Charles Howard (uncredited)
Jacob Dance
Essex's Soldier (uncredited)
Forrester Harvey
Bit Part (uncredited)
Holmes Herbert
Majordomo (uncredited)
I. Stanford Jolley
Spectator Outside Whitehall Palace (uncredited)
Doris Lloyd
Handmaiden (uncredited)
John Sutton
Capt. Armand of the Queen's Guard (uncredited)
Rosella Towne
Lady of the Court (uncredited)
Maris Wrixon
Lady of the Court (uncredited)
Crew
Norman Reilly Raine
Writing
Michael Curtiz
Directing
Æneas MacKenzie
Writing
Hugo Friedhofer
Sound
Jack L. Warner
Production
Maxwell Anderson
Writing
Byron Haskin
Directing
Leo F. Forbstein
Sound
Ali Hubert
Costume & Make-Up
Milan Roder
Sound
W. Howard Greene
Camera
Owen Marks
Editing
C.A. Riggs
Sound
Sherry Shourds
Directing
Orry-Kelly
Costume & Make-Up
Perc Westmore
Costume & Make-Up
Hal B. Wallis
Production
Anton Grot
Art
Robert Lord
Writing
Sol Polito
Camera
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