Mayerling

Mayerling

85 mins | Romance, War, History, TV Movie | Feb. 4, 1957

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.

Mayerling

85 mins | Romance, War, History, TV Movie | Feb. 4, 1957

Mayerling
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.
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers Showcase Productions
Original title Mayerling
Directors Dean Whitmore, Kirk Browning, Anatole Litvak
Writers Claude Anet, Irma von Cube, Andrew McCullough

Cast

Audrey Hepburn

as Countess Marie Vetsera

Mel Ferrer

as Crown Prince Rudolph

Raymond Massey

as The Prime Minister

Basil Sydney

as The Emperor Franz Joseph

Diana Wynyard

as The Empress Elizabeth

Judith Evelyn

as Countess Larische

Isobel Elsom

as Baroness Vetsera

Nehemiah Persoff

as Police Officer

Lorne Greene

as Emperor's Aide

David Opatoshu

as Police Officer

Ian Wolfe

as Loschek

Monique van Vooren

as Marinka

John McGovern

as Szeps

David Atkinson

as Philip of Coeburg

Nancy Marchand

as Princess Stephanie

Michael Evans

as Hoyos

Berry Kroeger

as Headwaiter

Pippa Scott

as Hanna Vetsera

Laurinda Barrett

as Marie's Cousin

Iggie Wolfington

as a Drummer

Francis Compton

as Prater Waiter

Ann Dere

as Nurse

Nat Norbet

as Puppeteer