Young Bess (1953) On DVD

Actor :     Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Kay Walsh
Director:   George Sidney
Genre:       Drama
Year:          1953
Studio:       MGM
Length:      112
Released: November 10, 2010
Rating:       Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format:      DVD
Misc:          NTSC, Color
Language: English
subtitles:  English

DESCRIPTION:

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(r)-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.