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
-
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 Tyrwhitt
-
Alan NapierRobert Tyrwhitt
-
Noreen CorcoranBess as a child
-
Ivan TriesaultDanish Envoy
-
Elaine StewartAnne Boleyn
-
Dawn AddamsKate Howard
-
Doris LloydMother Jack
-
Lumsden HareArchbishop Cranmer
-
Lester MatthewsSir William Paget
Recommendations
-
Chronicle
-
Dangerous When Wet
-
The Light Touch
-
Don't Breathe 2
-
Men in Black: International
-
Coco
-
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
-
Home Alone
-
Your Name.
-
Knives Out
-
Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
-
Re/Member
-
Back to the Outback
-
Outside the Wire
-
Doctor Strange
-
Back to the Future
-
Marriage Story
-
Us
-
Saw III
-
Aladdin
Similar Movies
-
Ki Hadjar Dewantara
-
Four Weddings and a Funeral
-
The Last Emperor
-
Basquiat
-
Downfall
-
Bridget Jones's Diary
-
Catch Me If You Can
-
The Longest Voyage
-
Walk the Line
-
Seven Samurai
-
Capote
-
Braveheart
-
The Current War
-
Saturday Night
-
The Elephant Man
-
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
-
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
-
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
-
Manto
-
The Zurich Affair - Wagner's One and Only Love