Maybe not quite how it actually happened, but this was Hollywood, remember. Jean Simmons plays the Princess Elizabeth brought up in rags and riches depending on the whim of her father Henry VIII (rather rumbustiously played by Charles Laughton). Meantime Thomas Seymour (a handsome, swashbuckling rogue played by Stewart Granger) is marrying Henry's widow Catherine Parr (Deborah Kerr) and so we have our menage-a-trois. History is fact about the marriage; much less so about the "love affair" between Elizabeth and Seymour. This film follows her coming-of-age as she navigates the political…
“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.
- Status
- Released
- Original Language
- English
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast
Jean SimmonsYoung Bess (Queen Elizabeth I)
Stewart GrangerThomas Seymour
Deborah KerrCatherine Parr
Charles LaughtonKing Henry VIII
Kay WalshMrs. Ashley
Guy RolfeNed Seymour
Kathleen ByronAnn Seymour
Cecil KellawayMr. Parry
Rex ThompsonPrince Edward / King Edward VI
Robert ArthurBarnaby
Leo G. CarrollMr. Mums
Norma VardenLady TyrwhittMedia
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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 …
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The movie stars Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Kay Walsh and more.
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