The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

Bette Davis Queen Elizabeth

Errol Flynn The Earl of Essex

Olivia de Havilland Lady Penelope Gray

Donald Crisp Francis Bacon

Alan Hale The Prince of Tyrone

Vincent Price Sir Walter Raleigh

Henry Stephenson Lord Burghley

Henry Daniell Sir Robert Cecil

James Stephenson Sir Thomas Egerton

Nanette Fabray Mistress Margaret Radcliffe

Ralph Forbes Lord Knollys

Robert Warwick Lord Mountjoy