The Virgin Queen (film)

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The Virgin Queen
Directed by Henry Koster
Produced by Charles Brackett
Written by Harry Brown (story)
Mildred Lord (screenplay)
Starring Bette Davis
Richard Todd
Joan Collins
Herbert Marshall
Dan O'Herlihy
Music by Franz Waxman
Editing by Robert L. Simpson
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date(s) 1955
Running time 92 minutes
Language English

The Virgin Queen is a 1955 historical drama film starring Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins, Herbert Marshall and Dan O'Herlihy. It focuses on the relationship between Elizabeth I of England and Sir Walter Raleigh. The film marks the second time Davis played the British monarch; the first was The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex.

[edit] Awards and Nominations

The Virgin Queen was nominated for the Academy Award for Costume Design, for the work of Charles LeMaire and Mary Willis. LeMaire lost to himself for Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing.

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