SYNOPSIS: The gorgeous duo of Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux first appeared on-screen together almost twenty years before The Earrings of Madame de . . . , in this sumptuous, tragic romance from Anatole Litvak (The Snake Pit, Anastasia). Mayerling is the profoundly emotional true story of the doomed adulterous affair between Archduke Rudolf, heir to the Austrian throne, and the young and innocent baron’s daughter Marie Vetsera.
| Archduke Rudolf of Austria | Charles Boyer |
| Maria Vetsera | Danielle Darrieux |
| Baroness Vetsera | Marthe Regnier |
| Stephanie | Yolande Laffon |
| Countess Larisch | Suzy Prim |
| Marinka | Gina Manès |
| Emperor Franz Joseph | Jean Dax |
| Szeps | René Bergeron |
| Director | Anatole Litvak |
| Producer | Seymour Nebenzal |
| Based on the novel Idyll’s End by | Claude Anet |
| Screenplay | Joseph Kessel and Irmand Von Cube |
| Cinematography | Armand Thirard |
| Editing | Henri Rust |
| Music | Arthur Honegger |
By September 18, 2009
Almost twenty years before they enacted such splendid suffocation in Max Ophuls’s swoony masterpiece The Earrings of Madame de . . . , the agelessly glamorous Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux Read more »
