

"A Great and Spectacular Drama!"
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.
Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I)

Thomas Seymour

Catherine Parr

King Henry VIII

Mrs. Ashley

Ned Seymour

Ann Seymour

Mr. Parry

Prince Edward / King Edward VI

Barnaby

Mr. Mums

Lady Tyrwhitt

Robert Tyrwhitt

Bess as a child

Danish Envoy

Anne Boleyn

Kate Howard

Mother Jack

Archbishop Cranmer

Sir William Paget

Officer