The Virgin Queen (1955)

Directed by

Henry Koster

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film looks at the relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh. It shows their personal and political interactions at court.

grandperiodreservedtalkyslightly tensehistrionicslowromantic

What happens

The Virgin Queen is a 1955 American DeLuxe Color historical drama film directed by Henry Koster and starring Bette Davis, Richard Todd and Joan Collins. Filmed in CinemaScope, it focuses on the relationship between Elizabeth I of England and Sir Walter Raleigh. The film marks the second time Davis played the English monarch; the first was The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939). It was also the first Hollywood film for Australian actor Rod Taylor. Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills were nominated for an Oscar for Best Costume Design of a Color Production. LeMaire then won the award for another film instead; Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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