
Young Bess (1953)
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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Budget | $0.00 |
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Revenue | $0.00 |
Original Language | en |
Popularity | 0.637 |
Directed By
George Sidney
Crew
George Sidney
Margaret Irwin
Arthur Wimperis
Charles Rosher
Jan Lustig
Henri Jaffa
George Rhein
A. Arnold Gillespie
Warren Newcombe
Sydney Guilaroff
William Tuttle
Ralph E. Winters
Walter Plunkett
Miklós Rózsa
Cedric Gibbons
Urie McCleary
Jack D. Moore
Edwin B. Willis
Sidney Franklin
Douglas Shearer
TOP CAST

Jean Simmons
Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I)

Stewart Granger
Thomas Seymour

Deborah Kerr
Catherine Parr

Charles Laughton
King Henry VIII

Kay Walsh
Mrs. Ashley

Guy Rolfe
Ned Seymour

Kathleen Byron
Ann Seymour

Cecil Kellaway
Mr. Parry

Rex Thompson
Prince Edward / King Edward VI

Robert Arthur
Barnaby

Leo G. Carroll
Mr. Mums

Norma Varden
Lady Tyrwhitt

Alan Napier
Robert Tyrwhitt

Noreen Corcoran
Bess as a child

Ivan Triesault
Danish Envoy

Elaine Stewart
Anne Boleyn

Dawn Addams
Kate Howard

Doris Lloyd
Mother Jack

Lumsden Hare
Archbishop Cranmer

Lester Matthews
Sir William Paget
Patrick Whyte
Officer