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That 'Young Bess' is based on one of the most fascinating periods in history and that it had a lot of talent involved are reasons enough to watch it. Once you get past the fact, if you can, that the events in 'Young Bess' are heavily fictionalised and romanticized, it really does charm and entertain (or at least to this reviewer it did).
Reviews 52% 100+ Ratings Audience Score 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
30. Featured review. The queen. "Young Bess" features three of the greatest English actors of all time :Jean Simmons,Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr;the two actresses had already teamed up for "black narcissus" but in "young Bess" it's Simmons who plays the lead .
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- Biography, Drama, Romance
- George Sidney
- 1953-05-29
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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.
Contemporary reviews were positive. A. H. Weiler of The New York Times wrote in a favorable review that "if faint strains of soap opera occasionally filter through the pomp and circumstance, Elizabeth of England and some of the storied figures who crowd this beautiful Technicolored tapestry, emerge as human beings."
- $2,423,000
- Sidney Franklin
Reviews. Dec 31, 1952 11:00pm PT. Young Bess. Margaret Irwin's fine book on the life and times of the girl who was to become England's Queen Elizabeth has been made into a remarkably...
1h 52m1953. Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Photos & Videos. Film Details. Awards. Articles & Reviews. Quotes. Notes. Brief Synopsis. The future Elizabeth I fights court intrigue in the turbulent years before her ascension to the throne. Cast & Crew. Read More. George Sidney. Director. Jean Simmons. Young Bess [Queen Elizabeth I] Deborah Kerr.
