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Mayerling (1957)
Directed by Anatole Litvak, Kirk Browning
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.
Length 85 minutes
Actors
Audrey Hepburn | Mel Ferrer | Raymond Massey | Basil Sydney | Diana Wynyard | Judith Evelyn | Isobel Elsom | Nehemiah Persoff | Lorne Greene | David Opatoshu | Ian Wolfe | Monique van Vooren | John McGovern | David Atkinson | Nancy Marchand | Michael Evans | Berry Kroeger | Pippa Scott | Laurinda Barrett | Iggie Wolfington | Francis Compton | Ann Dere | Nat Norbet