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Directed by
George Sidney 
 
Writing credits
Margaret Irwin (novel)

Jan Lustig (writer) and
Arthur Wimperis (writer)

Cast (in credits order) verified as complete

Jean Simmons ... Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I)
Stewart Granger ... Thomas Seymour

Deborah Kerr ... Catherine Parr

Charles Laughton ... King Henry VIII
Kay Walsh ... Mrs. Ashley
Guy Rolfe ... Ned Seymour
Kathleen Byron ... Ann Seymour
Cecil Kellaway ... Mr. Parry
Rex Thompson ... Prince Edward / King Edward VI
Robert Arthur ... Barnaby
Leo G. Carroll ... Mr. Mums
Norma Varden ... Lady Tyrwhitt
Alan Napier ... Robert Tyrwhitt
Noreen Corcoran ... Bess as a child
Ivan Triesault ... Danish Envoy
Elaine Stewart ... Anne Boleyn
Dawn Addams ... Kate Howard
Doris Lloyd ... Mother Jack
Lumsden Hare ... Archbishop Cranmer
Lester Matthews ... Sir William Paget
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
David Cavendish ... Council Man (uncredited)
Frank Eldredge ... English Officer (uncredited)
Sam Harris ... Bit Part (uncredited)
Charles Keane ... Halberdier (uncredited)
Raymond Lawrence ... Bit Part (uncredited)
Fee Malten ... Woman (uncredited)
Clive Morgan ... Bit Part (uncredited)
Carl Saxe ... Executioner (uncredited)
John Sheffield ... English Officer (uncredited)
Reginald Sheffield ... Court Recorder (uncredited)
John Trueman ... Yeoman (uncredited)
Ann Tyrrell ... Mary (uncredited)
Patrick Whyte ... Officer (uncredited)
Ian Wolfe ... Stranger (uncredited)
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Produced by
Sidney Franklin .... producer
 
Original Music by
Miklós Rózsa  (as Miklos Rozsa)
 
Cinematography by
Charles Rosher (director of photography)
 
Film Editing by
Ralph E. Winters 
 
Art Direction by
Cedric Gibbons 
Urie McCleary 
 
Set Decoration by
Jack D. Moore 
Edwin B. Willis 
 
Costume Design by
Walter Plunkett 
 
Makeup Department
Sydney Guilaroff .... hair stylist
William Tuttle .... makeup designer
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
George Rhein .... assistant director
 
Sound Department
Douglas Shearer .... recording supervisor
 
Special Effects by
A. Arnold Gillespie .... special effects
Warren Newcombe .... special effects
 
Editorial Department
Alvord Eiseman .... color consultant
 
Music Department
Eugene Zador .... orchestrator (uncredited)
 
Other crew
Henri Jaffa .... technicolor color consultant
 
Crew verified as complete

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