"MAYERLING"

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television version of classic movie, in turn based on novel "Idyl's End" by Jean Scholpfer, writing under pseudonym Claude Anet, adapted by Irmgard von Cube and Andrew McCullough, produced, directed and staged by Anatole Litvak in his television debut, directed for television by Kirk Browning, based on the true story set in the Austro-Hungarian capital in which married Crown Prince Rudolph of Habsburg meets and falls in love with the beautiful Countess Maria Vetsera, only to join her in a murder/suicide pact after his father Emperor Franz Josef ordered him to break off the romance; starring Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer (in their television debuts, shortly after their marriage), supported by Lorne Greene, Raymond Massey, Basil Sydney, Diana Wynyard, Nehemiah Persoff, David Opatoshu, Nancy Marchand, Michael Evans, Pippa Scott, Monique van Vooren, Barry Kroeger; large supporting cast includes Charles Mendick, John Irving, Peter Donat, Suzy Parker, Lilia Skala.

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