Young Bess
- Released on
- Runtime
- 112 mins
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.
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.
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
Director
- George Sidney
Producers
- Sidney Franklin
Screenwriter
- Arthur Wimperis
- Jan Lustig
