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Young Bess
1953, May 29
1h 52m
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.
Directed by
George Sidney
Deborah Kerr
Catherine Parr
Jean Simmons
Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I)
Charles Laughton
King Henry VIII
Alan Napier
Robert Tyrwhitt
Stewart Granger
Thomas Seymour
Norma Varden
Lady Tyrwhitt
Leo G. Carroll
Mr. Mums
Kathleen Byron
Ann Seymour
Elaine Stewart
Anne Boleyn
Cecil Kellaway
Mr. Parry
Doris Lloyd
Mother Jack
Kay Walsh
Mrs. Ashley
Guy Rolfe
Ned Seymour
Noreen Corcoran
Bess as a child
Lumsden Hare
Archbishop Cranmer
Dawn Addams
Kate Howard
Ivan Triesault
Danish Envoy
Lester Matthews
Sir William Paget
Rex Thompson
Prince Edward / King Edward VI
Robert Arthur
Barnaby
Patrick Whyte
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