
- HD 1080
- Runtime: 112m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: George Sidney
- Stars: Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Kay Walsh
- keywords: england, queen, biography, tudor, historical figure, 16th century
- Production_studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Slogan: A Great and Spectacular Drama!
- The Young Bess is featured in the top rankings of 1953
- #35 in Top Romance Movies of 1953
- #81 in Top Drama Movies of 1953
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.