Young Bess
A Great and Spectacular Drama!
1953-05-29 | 112 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Jean SimmonsYoung Bess (Queen Elizabeth I)
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Stewart GrangerThomas Seymour
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Deborah KerrCatherine Parr
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Charles LaughtonKing Henry VIII
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Kay WalshMrs. Ashley
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Guy RolfeNed Seymour
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Kathleen ByronAnn Seymour
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Cecil KellawayMr. Parry
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Rex ThompsonPrince Edward / King Edward VI
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Robert ArthurBarnaby
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Leo G. CarrollMr. Mums
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Norma VardenLady Tyrwhitt
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Alan NapierRobert Tyrwhitt
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Noreen CorcoranBess as a child
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Ivan TriesaultDanish Envoy
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Elaine StewartAnne Boleyn
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Dawn AddamsKate Howard
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Doris LloydMother Jack
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Lumsden HareArchbishop Cranmer
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Lester MatthewsSir William Paget
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