![Young Bess](https://i3.wp.com/image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/yI8vCadGjFtMnJdkRWDGnXrB8rv.jpg)
Plot
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.
Writer | Margaret Irwin |
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Director | George Sidney |
Actor | Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr |
Country | United States of America |
Production | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |