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.

• Anatole LitvakDirector
• Kirk BrowningDirector
• George BassmanOriginal Music Composer

• Audrey HepburnCountess Marie Vetsera
• Mel FerrerCrown Prince Rudolph
• Raymond MasseyThe Prime Minister
• Basil SydneyThe Emperor Franz Joseph
• Diana WynyardThe Empress Elizabeth
• Judith EvelynCountess Larische
• Isobel ElsomBaroness Vetsera
• Nehemiah PersoffPolice Officer
• Lorne GreeneEmperor's Aide
• David OpatoshuPolice Officer
• Ian WolfeLoschek
• Monique van VoorenMarinka