The private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

Directors

Michael Curtiz

Cast

Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Vincent Price, Alan Hale, Donald Crisp, Henry Stephenson, Henry Daniell, James Stephenson

The story

The Earl of Essex returns in triumph to London after having dealt the Spanish a crushing naval defeat at Cádiz. In London, an aging Queen Elizabeth awaits him with love, but also with fear, because of his popularity with the commoners and his consuming ambition. His envious rivals include Sir Robert Cecil, Lord Burghley, and Sir Walter Raleigh.

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