Elizabeth the Queen (play)

Elizabeth the Queen was a 1930

It was adapted into a film The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bette Davis, Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland and a television movie, Elizabeth the Queen (1968) directed by George Schaefer and starring Judith Anderson and Charlton Heston.

On radio, it has been adapted four times: for NBC's "Great Plays" program on

• Elizabeth
• Alfred Lunt as Lord Essex
• Mab Anthony as Mary
• Morris Carnovsky as Francis Bacon
• Percy Waram as Sir Walter Raleigh
• Robert Conness as Lord Burghley
• Arthur Hughes as Sir Robert Cecil
• Whitford Kane as Burbage
• Phoebe Brand as Ellen
• Louise Huntington as a Lady-in-waiting
• Annabelle Williams as a Lady-in-waiting
• Royal Beal as Marvel
• Barry Macollum as the fool
• Philip Foster as Captain Armin
• Edla Frankau as Tressa
• Anita Kerry as Penelope Gray
• Edward Oldfield as a captain of the guards
• Curtis Arnall as Poins, and as a courtier, a guard and a man-at-arms
• Charles Brokaw as a courier and as Heming
• Robert Caille as a courtier
• John Ellsworth as a man-at-arms
• Vincent Sherman as a herald

Multiple roles as Courtiers, Guards, Men-at-arms:

• Michael Borodin
• James A. Boshell
• Thomas Eyre
• George Fleming
• Perry King
• Henry Lase
• Guy Moore
• Stanley Ruth
• Nick Wiger
• James Wiley

References

Sources

• ​Elizabeth the Queen​ at the Internet Broadway Database
• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

External links

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• ​Elizabeth the Queen​ at the Internet Broadway Database