Young Bess
Young Bess
Overview
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.
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Cast
Jean Simmons
Stewart Granger
Deborah Kerr
Charles Laughton
Kay Walsh
Guy Rolfe
Kathleen Byron
Cecil Kellaway
Rex Thompson
Robert Arthur
Leo G. Carroll
Norma Varden
Alan Napier
Noreen Corcoran
Ivan Triesault
Elaine Stewart
Dawn Addams
Doris Lloyd
Lumsden Hare
Lester Matthews
Patrick Whyte
Crew
George Sidney
Margaret Irwin
Arthur Wimperis
Jan Lustig
Charles Rosher
Ralph E. Winters
Walter Plunkett
Urie McCleary
Miklós Rózsa
Jack D. Moore
Sidney Franklin
Edwin B. Willis
Cedric Gibbons
