Young Bess

(1953)

112 minutes

Biography / Drama / Romance

Directed by George Sidney

Cast:

Jean Simmons as Young Bess aka Queen Elizabeth I
Stewart Granger as Thomas Seymour 
Deborah Kerr as Catherine Parr 
Charles Laughton as King Henry VIII 
Kay Walsh as Mrs. Ashley
Guy Rolfe as Edward 'Ned' Seymour
Kathleen Byron as Anne Seymour, Ned's wife
Cecil Kellaway as Mr. Parry
Rex Thompson as Edward VI
Robert Arthur as Barnaby, Thomas's page
Leo G. Carroll as Mr. Mums, Elizabeth's tutor
Norma Varden as Lady Tyrwhitt
Alan Napier as Robert Tyrwhitt
Noreen Corcoran as Bess as a child
Ivan Triesault as Danish Envoy
Elaine Stewart as Anne Boleyn
Dawn Addams as Catherine Howard
Doris Lloyd as Mother Jack
Lumsden Hare as Archbishop Thomas Cranmer
Lester Matthews as Sir William Paget

Young Bess trailer

This film centers on the life of Queen Elizabeth I, before she became the queen of England. She feels unhappy with Admiral Thomas Seymour and aspires to build an army to match the Portuguese and the Spanish.