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Young Bess
Release Date: May 29, 1953
Year | : | 1953 |
Slogan | : | «A Great and Spectacular Drama!» |
Genres | : | Drama, History, Romance |
Production Companies | : | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Director | : | George Sidney |
Producers | : | Sidney Franklin |
Writers | : | Jan Lustig, Arthur Wimperis, Margaret Irwin |
RunTime | : | 112 mins. |
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.
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