Young Bess

Stewart Granger as Thomas Seymour Robert Arthur as Barnaby Leo G. Carroll as Mr. Mums Norma Varden as Lady Tyrwhitt Ivan Triesault as Danish Envoy Dawn Addams as Kate Howard Doris Lloyd as Mother Jack Lumsden Hare as Archbishop Cranmer Kathleen Byron as Ann Seymour Cecil Kellaway as Mr. Parry Elaine Stewart as Anne Boleyn Lester Matthews as Sir William Paget Jean Simmons as Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I) Charles Laughton as King Henry VIII Guy Rolfe as Ned Seymour Rex Thompson as Prince Edward / King Edward VI Deborah Kerr as Catherine Parr Kay Walsh as Mrs. Ashley Alan Napier as Robert Tyrwhitt Noreen Corcoran as Bess as a child

Sydney Guilaroff Hairstylist Ralph E. Winters Editor Walter Plunkett Costume Design Sidney Franklin Producer George Sidney Director A. Arnold Gillespie Special Effects William Tuttle Makeup Artist Miklós Rózsa Original Music Composer Douglas Shearer Recording Supervision Charles Rosher Director of Photography Edwin B. Willis Set Decoration Cedric Gibbons Art Direction Arthur Wimperis Screenplay