Mayerling
Mayerling
Release: 1957-02-04
·Runtime: 85m
·★ 5.5
TV Movie
Romance
War
History
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.
Production Companies
Showcase Productions
Cast
Mel Ferrer
as Crown Prince Rudolph
Raymond Massey
as The Prime Minister
Basil Sydney
as The Emperor Franz Joseph
Isobel Elsom
as Baroness Vetsera
Pippa Scott
as Hanna Vetsera
Iggie Wolfington
as a Drummer
Diana Wynyard
as The Empress Elizabeth
David Opatoshu
as Police Officer
Ian Wolfe
as Loschek
Michael Evans
as Hoyos
John McGovern
as Szeps
Audrey Hepburn
as Countess Marie Vetsera
Nehemiah Persoff
as Police Officer
Lorne Greene
as Emperor's Aide
Monique van Vooren
as Marinka
Nancy Marchand
as Princess Stephanie
Laurinda Barrett
as Marie's Cousin
Judith Evelyn
as Countess Larische
Berry Kroeger
as Headwaiter
Francis Compton
as Prater Waiter
