Release Date

29 May, 1953

Runtime

01:52: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

A Great and Spectacular Drama!

The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her unexpected ascension to the throne at a mere 25. Charles Laughton reprises his Academy Award®-winning* role as her formidable father Henry VIII. Deborah Kerr plays her last stepmother (and Henry's last of six wives), gentle Catherine Parr. And Simmons' then real-life husband, Stewart Granger, adds heroics as Lord Admiral Thomas Seymour. In a resplendent world of adventure, romance and court intrigue, Young Bess reigns.

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Actors

Jean Simmons

Stewart Granger

Deborah Kerr

Charles Laughton

Kay Walsh

Guy Rolfe

Kathleen Byron

Cecil Kellaway

Rex Thompson

Robert Arthur

Leo G. Carroll

Norma Varden

Alan Napier

Noreen Corcoran

Ivan Triesault

Elaine Stewart

Dawn Addams

Doris Lloyd

Lumsden Hare

Lester Matthews

Patrick Whyte

Crew

Arthur Wimperis

Margaret Irwin

George Sidney

Charles Rosher

Henri Jaffa

George Rhein

Jan Lustig

A. Arnold Gillespie

William Tuttle

Sydney Guilaroff

Warren Newcombe

Walter Plunkett

Ralph E. Winters

Jack D. Moore