The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

Bette Davis

Queen Elizabeth

Errol Flynn

The Earl of Essex

Olivia de Havilland

Lady Penelope Gray

Donald Crisp

Francis Bacon

Alan Hale

The Prince of Tyrone

Vincent Price

Sir Walter Raleigh

Henry Stephenson

Lord Burghley

Henry Daniell

Sir Robert Cecil

James Stephenson

Sir Thomas Egerton

Nanette Fabray

Mistress Margaret Radcliffe

Ralph Forbes

Lord Knollys

Robert Warwick

Lord Mountjoy

Leo G. Carroll

Sir Edward Coke

Guy Bellis

Lord Charles Howard (uncredited)

Jacob Dance

Essex's Soldier (uncredited)

Forrester Harvey

Bit Part (uncredited)

Holmes Herbert

Majordomo (uncredited)

I. Stanford Jolley

Spectator Outside Whitehall Palace (uncredited)

Æneas MacKenzie

Screenplay

Michael Curtiz

Director

Norman Reilly Raine

Screenplay

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Original Music Composer

Owen Marks

Editor

Hal B. Wallis

Executive Producer

Sol Polito

Director of Photography