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.
Top Billed Cast
Audrey Hepburn
Countess Marie Vetsera
Mel Ferrer
Crown Prince Rudolph
Raymond Massey
The Prime Minister
Basil Sydney
The Emperor Franz Joseph
Diana Wynyard
The Empress Elizabeth
Featured Crew
Anatole Litvak
Director
Kirk Browning
Director
Andrew McCullough
Production Assistant
George Bassman
Original Music Composer
George Lawrence
Production Manager
Dorothy Jeakins
Costume Design
Joan MacDonald
Casting Director
Andrew McCullough
Adaptation
Anatole Litvak
Producer
George Bassman
Conductor
Claude Anet
Novel
Fred Christie
Sound