Eva LeGallienne plays the lead role in this version of Maxwell Anderson’s famous play. I’d never heard of her before this – she was a famous theatre actor whose career spanned decades, making the cover of Time magazine at one moment. I preferred her and Richard Waring to the Lunts, who also did a version of this, for Theatre Guild on the Air. I’d be interested to read a feminist take on this – Elizabeth is a strong ruler, but always seems to want to cave to Essex… but she is never really serious about it.
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