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Writers:
Margaret Irwin (novel)
Jan Lustig (writer) ...
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Release Date:
29 May 1953 (USA) more
Plot:
Chronicles the life of queen Elizabeth I, before she became the queen of England. Apart from taking part in the court intrigues... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 1 nomination more
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The queen more (15 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| 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 / King Edward VI | |
| 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 |
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Runtime:
112 min
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Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Australia:G | Finland:K-8 | Sweden:Btl | USA:Approved (PCA #16304)
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This was young Rex Thompson's film debut as Prince Edward/King Edward VI. He turned in a truly engaging performance as the ill-fated young King of England, remarkable considering he was only eleven years old, and was not British but a native New Yorker. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: The royal badge on Barnaby's livery consists of a crowned Tudor rose with four red-and-white petals, but the real Tudor rose emblem had five petals, the crown flush with the top petal. more
Quotes:
Thomas Seymour:
If you were queen of England, what would you do, eh? Would you give your admiral the opportunity to do great deeds?
Young Bess:
I'd give him the opportunities he never dared to dream about. I'd send him around the globe as the Portuguese do. I'd send him to the New World to let the Spaniards know that they are no longer masters of it.
Thomas Seymour:
That won't be easy. We're a small country, Bess.
Young Bess:
That can be remedied, Tom. It CAN be remedied!
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| Ironic coincidence! | suel41452 |
| Very well done *SPOILERS* | helena_hawkins |
| How historically accurate? | suel41452 |
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"Young Bess" features three of the greatest English actors of all time :Jean Simmons,Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr;the two actresses had already teamed up for "black narcissus" but in "young Bess" it's Simmons who plays the lead .
The movie does not really show it,but Elizabeth had a very harsh childhood ,unlike Mary Stuart ,her dear cousin who spent her youth in the sweet Chateaux de La Loire in France .That may explain why Elizabeth was prepared to reign and Mary failed dismally. It was a wonder she kept her head after all those years with Mary Tudor.But Jean Simmons succeeds in her performance:from a romantic young girl to the strong queen (the big shadow on the wall is revealing),she runs the whole gamut and she gets strong support from Stewart Granger as her dashing attentive escort ,from Deborah Kerr ,in an underwritten part, and from Charles Laughton,ideally cast as Henry the Eighth.