Young Bess

Name: Young Bess
Director: George Sidney
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Released: 1953-05-29
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Kay Walsh

“A Great and Spectacular Drama!”

5.8(22)NR19531h 52mEN

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Cast

Jean Simmons

Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I)

Stewart Granger

Thomas Seymour

Deborah Kerr

Catherine Parr

Charles Laughton

King Henry VIII

Kay Walsh

Mrs. Ashley

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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.