Mayerling (1957)

  • NR
  • 02/04/1957 (US)
  • TV Movie, Romance, War, History
  • 1h 25m

Overview

Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desperate over his father's command to put away his teenage mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera--shot her to death and killed himself. The misfortune may indeed have been a murder-suicide, but perhaps it was a political assassination, or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta: scholarship is still catching up with the facts.

Anatole Litvak

Director

Kirk Browning

Director

Claude Anet

Novel

Cast

Audrey Hepburn's headshot

Audrey Hepburn

Countess Marie Vetsera
Mel Ferrer's headshot

Mel Ferrer

Crown Prince Rudolph
Raymond Massey's headshot

Raymond Massey

The Prime Minister
Basil Sydney's headshot

Basil Sydney

The Emperor Franz Joseph
Diana Wynyard's headshot

Diana Wynyard

The Empress Elizabeth
Judith Evelyn's headshot

Judith Evelyn

Countess Larische
Isobel Elsom's headshot

Isobel Elsom

Baroness Vetsera
Nehemiah Persoff's headshot

Nehemiah Persoff

Police Officer

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