Jean Simmons

as Varinia

as Admiral Nora Satie

as Council Member (voice)

as Kanchi

as Eudora McVeigh Shipton

as Julie Maragon

as Young Estella

as Ophelia

as Diana

as Sarah Brown

as Sister Sharon Falconer

as Em

as Diane Tremayne Jessup

as Clarissa Main

as Terri O'Brien

as Hattie Durant

as Fiona Fee Cleary

as Merit

as Self

as Princess

as Margaret Lowen

as Harpist (uncredited)

as Desiree Clary

as Lily Watkins

as Carrie-Louise Serrocold

as Vicky Barton

as Molly Lang

as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard / Naomi Collins

as A Singer

as Barbara Leslie Forbes

as Mary Wilson

as Dominique Ballard

as Self

as Nancy Downes

as Milly Toland

as Charlotte Bronn

as Self

as Sophie Malraux

as Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I)

as Self - Nominee

as Corby Lane (Corby Johnson)

as Ruth Gordon Jones

as Cally Canham

as Caroline Ruthyn

as Susan Lampton

as Frl. Rottenmeier

as Lavinina

as Emmeline Foster

as The Blonde

as Anne Leeds

as Judith

as Evie Bishop (segment Sanatorium)

as Carolyn Parker

as Laura Robertson

as Mary Follet

as Hilda Crane Burns

as Lucy Brady

as Countess Lucinda Rhives

as Hannah

as Elizabeth Rambeau

as Evelyne Wallace

as Woman

as Sarah

as Elinor

as Jay Blake

as Molly Dodd

as Maxine de la Hunt

as Jane Brodrick

as Aunt Mary

as Helen Lawson

as Miss Havisham

as Aaronia Haldorn

as Katherine Palmer

as Heidi

as Peach Prindible Bailey

as Self

as Eva Watkins

as Connie Harrison

as Estelle Benbow

as Constance Payne

as Sally Cooper

as Katherine Stratton

as Ophelia (archive footage)

as Narrator (voice)

as Margaret Lawrence

as Narrator

as Molly Hammond

as Older Elinor

as Phoebe Masterson

as Sarah Jennings

as Etta Marsh

as Jane Kingsley

as Peggy

as Self (archive footage)

as Diedre

as Self (narrator)

as Gretchen Jordache Burke