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5 March 1937 (USA)
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. . . A truly brilliant producer brings you a thrilling tale of love and danger that will live in your memory as long as there is romance in your heart !
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Queen Elizabeth is running this show. The men in her court should be thinking about how to add to the...
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Flora Robson | ... | Queen Elizabeth I of England | |
| Raymond Massey | ... | King Philip II of Spain | |
| Leslie Banks | ... | Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester | |
| Laurence Olivier | ... | Michael Ingolby | |
| Vivien Leigh | ... | Cynthia | |
| Morton Selten | ... | Lord Burleigh | |
| Tamara Desni | ... | Elena | |
| Lyn Harding | ... | Sir Richard Ingolby | |
| George Thirlwell | ... | Mr. Lawrence Gregory | |
| Henry Oscar | ... | Spanish Ambassador | |
| Robert Rendel | ... | Don Miguel (as Robert Rendell) | |
| Robert Newton | ... | Don Pedro | |
| Donald Calthrop | ... | Don Escobal | |
| Charles Carson | ... | Adm. Valdez | |
| James Mason | ... | Hillary Vane |
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92 min
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Mono (Western Electric Wide Range Noiseless Recording)
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It was while screening 'Fire Over England' that agent Myron Selznick saw Vivien Leigh and decided that she was Scarlet O'Hara. Coincidently she was in Hollywood to accompany her husband, 'Lawrence Olivier' who was making Wuthering Heights (1939) and Myron brought her down to the Gone with the Wind (1939) set, the Burning of Atlanta and introduced her to his brother David as his new Scarlet O'Hara.
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Spanish Ambassador:
If your majesty will not hear words, we must come to cannon and see if you will hear them.
Queen Elizabeth I of England: If you use threats of that kind, I will chase you out of my kingdom.
Spanish Ambassador: But, your grace. You MUST listen.
Queen Elizabeth I of England: Must? Little man, little man, must is NOT a word to use to princes. Our council shall confer with you. Meanwhile, go home and be quiet!
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Queen Elizabeth I of England: If you use threats of that kind, I will chase you out of my kingdom.
Spanish Ambassador: But, your grace. You MUST listen.
Queen Elizabeth I of England: Must? Little man, little man, must is NOT a word to use to princes. Our council shall confer with you. Meanwhile, go home and be quiet!
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Featured in "In Search of Shakespeare" (2003)
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The Spanish Lady's Love
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This is a great movie with excellent production values, performances and exposition. These were very complicated times and neither Elizabeth nor Philip was a simple ruler. Neither was good nor bad and both were permitted by the mores of their times to be outrageous. Given that Flora Robson did not resemble Elizabeth in the slightest and was far, far younger at the time of her portrayal, she presents the great Queen as she should be portrayed except that Elizabeth was a beauty in her youth and permitted the illusion of beauty to continue long after it was lost. See it, hear it and enjoy it. It is a mountain beside the current portrayals of these people and their times as a bland pageant of farthingales.