"History called her "The Temptress"!"
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
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The people behind it
Katharine Hepburn
Mary Stuart
Florence Eldridge
Elizabeth Tudor
Fredric March
Bothwell
Douglas Walton
Darnley
John Carradine
Rizzio
Robert Barrat
Morton
Gavin Muir
Leicester
Ian Keith
Moray
Moroni Olsen
John Knox
William Stack
Ruthven
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