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Directed by George Sidney,with JEAN SIMMONS, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton.Subtitles available in English and Italian.Disponibili sottotito...
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Young Bess (1953) -- (Movie Clip) -- The King's Daughter First scene in which Princess Elizabeth has grown to be Jean Simmons, defiant but swooning when Admiral Seymour (Stewart Granger, Simmon's then-husband) arrives, sent by her father Henry VIII to fetch her, in George Sidney's Young Bess, 1953.
- George Sidney, George Rhein, Robert Saunders
- Jean Simmons
When Anne Boleyn (Elaine Stewart) is executed for infidelity, her daughter Elizabeth (Jean Simmons) is sent into exile by King Henry VIII (Charles Laughton).
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- George Sidney
- History, Drama
- Jean Simmons
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At the beginning of the film, the infant Bess is in the care of her nursemaid, Katherine Ashley, who has an appalling habit of talking about her in a syrupy voice using the first person plural: "All we have to do is to see to it that our new stepmother likes us, our appearance, our little ways, and our manners." The princess is being taken to meet ...
Having divorced Anne of Cleves and beheaded Katherine Howard, Henry (Charles Laughton) is on to Katherine Parr (Deborah Kerr) by the time Elizabeth grows up enough to be played by Jean Simmons. It is true, as the film suggests, that this last Queen Katherine formed a close maternal bond with Elizabeth. In Young Bess, this new family are on a ship w...
The old king finally expires, bringing forth sighs of relief from single ladies all over Europe. By now, Elizabeth has got the hots for Lord Admiral Thomas Seymour (Stewart Granger). He's got the hots back. Instead, though, he marries Katherine, her stepmother – and Elizabeth moves in with them. When it comes to the newlywed couple's relationship w...
Around Whitsuntide 1548, Katherine caught her husband in a clinch with Elizabeth. The film abruptly recasts Elizabeth as a rapacious Scarlett O'Hara pursuing Thomas Seymour as a hopeless Ashley Wilkes, while Katherine Parr carries the can as Ashley's saintly, moribund wife Melanie. The scene in which Katherine confronts Elizabeth – "I can't afford ...
The reality of Elizabeth's relationship with Seymour wasn't exactly one of history's great love stories, but Young Bess is mostly based on solid research – with a fiddle-de-dee accent.
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.
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