title: The Virgin Queen (1923 film)
text: # The Virgin Queen (1923 film)
  
  The Virgin Queen is a 1923 British silent historical film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and starring Diana Manners, Carlyle Blackwell and Walter Tennyson.
  
  ## Production background
  
  The film is a biopic of the life of the English Queen Elizabeth I and had sequences filmed in Prizmacolor.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Diana Manners - Queen Elizabeth
  * Carlyle Blackwell - Lord Robert Dudley
  * Walter Tennyson - Viscount Hereford
  * Hubert Carrer - Sir William Cecil
  * A.B. Imeson - Borghese
  * William Luff - Bishop de Quadra
  * Lionel d'Aragon - Earl of Northumberland
  * Norma Whalley - Countess Lennox
  * Maisie Fisher - Queen Mary
  * Marian Constance Blackton - Mary Arundel
  * Violet Virginia Blackton - Lettice Knollys
  * Ursula Jeans - Bit Part (uncredited)
  