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.
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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
Judith Evelyn Countess Larische
Isobel Elsom Baroness Vetsera
Nehemiah Persoff Police Officer
Lorne Greene Emperor's Aide
David Opatoshu Police Officer
Ian Wolfe Loschek
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