The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex, 1939.

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex, 1939.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex, 1939.

Lady Penelope (Olivia de Havilland) trying to express her concern for Essex (Errol Flynn) before their monarch and his lover Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) arrives for a ribald exchange, in The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex, 1939.

Lord Essex (Errol Flynn), rapturously greeted by the people, gets an unexpected scolding from his monarch and secret paramour Elizabeth I (Bette Davis), Raleigh (Vincent Price) among those picking up scraps, early in Warner Bros.' The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex, 1939.

Annoyed Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) offered entertainment by her ladies-in-waiting, neutral about Margaret (Nanette Fabares a.k.a. Fabray) but furious with her secret romantic rival Penelope (Olivia de Havilland) in The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex, 1939.

Elizabeth I's love for the Earl of Essex threatens to destroy her kingdom in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) starring Bette Davis and Errol Flynn.