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Young Bess

MGM/UA (1953)

6.7

2,025

Biography | Drama | History | Romance

USA | English | Color | 01:52

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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.

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	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
	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
	David Bair	Ned's Page
	David Cavendish	Councilman
	Dick Cherney	Royal Court Member
	Frank Eldredge	Officer
	Jean Fenwick	Lady in Waiting