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.
as Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I)
as Thomas Seymour
as Catherine Parr
as King Henry VIII
as Mrs. Ashley
as Ned Seymour
as Ann Seymour
as Mr. Parry
as Prince Edward / King Edward VI
as Barnaby
as Mr. Mums
as Lady Tyrwhitt
as Robert Tyrwhitt
as Bess as a child
as Danish Envoy
as Anne Boleyn
as Kate Howard
as Mother Jack
as Archbishop Cranmer
as Sir William Paget
as Officer
