Young Bess
Movie
1953
1h 52m
NR
English
Drama, Romance, History
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Young Bess
NR
Movie
1953
1h 52m
English
Drama, Romance, History
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
Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I)
Thomas Seymour
Catherine Parr
King Henry VIII
Mrs. Ashley
Ned Seymour
Ann Seymour
Mr. Parry
Prince Edward / King Edward VI
Barnaby
Mr. Mums
Lady Tyrwhitt
Robert Tyrwhitt
Bess as a child
Danish Envoy
Anne Boleyn
Kate Howard
Mother Jack
Archbishop Cranmer
Sir William Paget
Officer
Directed By: George Sidney
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CinemaSerf
one year ago
Maybe not quite how it actually happened, but this was Hollywood, remember. Jean Simmons plays the Princess Elizabeth brought up in rags and riches depending on the whim of her father Henry VIII (rather rumbustiously played by Charles Laughton). Meantime Thomas Seymour (a handsome, swashbuckling rog More
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