Drama ·History ·Romance · United States of America · 1953 · 1h 52m

Young Bess

Director

Cast

Jean Simmons as Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I) Stewart Granger as Thomas Seymour Deborah Kerr as Catherine Parr Charles Laughton as King Henry VIII Kay Walsh as Mrs. Ashley Guy Rolfe as Ned Seymour

Crew

Charles Rosher — Director of Photography Ralph E. Winters — Editor Miklós Rózsa — Original Music Composer Arthur Wimperis — Screenplay Jan Lustig — Screenplay Margaret Irwin — Novel

Tagline

A Great and Spectacular Drama!

Synopsis

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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