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Young Bess

A Great and Spectacular Drama!

29 May 1953
  • United States of America
112 mins
5.8
18 votes
  • Drama
  • History
  • Romance
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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.
  • 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
  • Kathleen Byron

    as Ann Seymour
  • Cecil Kellaway

    as Mr. Parry
  • Rex Thompson

    as Prince Edward / King Edward VI
  • Robert Arthur

    as Barnaby
  • Leo G. Carroll

    as Mr. Mums
  • Norma Varden

    as Lady Tyrwhitt

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