 
		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.
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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
 
	Guy Rolfe
Ned Seymour
 
	Kathleen Byron
Ann Seymour
 
	Cecil Kellaway
Mr. Parry
 
	Rex Thompson
Prince Edward / King Edward VI
 
	Robert Arthur
Barnaby
 
	Leo G. Carroll
Mr. Mums
 
	Norma Varden
Lady Tyrwhitt
 
	Alan Napier
Robert Tyrwhitt
 
	Noreen Corcoran
Bess as a child
 
	Ivan Triesault
Danish Envoy
 
	Elaine Stewart
Anne Boleyn
 
	Dawn Addams
Kate Howard
 
	Doris Lloyd
Mother Jack
 
	Lumsden Hare
Archbishop Cranmer
 
	Lester Matthews
Sir William Paget
 
	Patrick Whyte
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