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Best EnglishLanguage Foreign Film | 1970
Budget 5,000,000 USD
Although she plays his mother, Ava Gardner is only nine years older than Omar Sharif.
Marcello Mastroianni was the original choice for the crown Prince while Alec Guinness was being pursued to play his father.
Originally planned as a starring vehicle for the husband-and-wife team of Mel Ferrer and Audrey Hepburn, who had performed Mayerling for TV in 1957.
Mel Ferrer had planned to produce, and director Terence Young had worked with his wife Audrey Hepburn in Wait Until Dark (1967) the previous year. Ferrer was still listed as producer up to 1967 but by the time production began, the Hepburn/Ferrer marriage was no more, and Ferrer was no longer involved.
Omar Sharif would later make a cameo appearance in the mini-series, The Crown Prince (2006), which also deals with the same events as Mayerling.
"Archduke Rudolf: Last night at the Court ball, a dark Polish woman, the only one there of interest to me, I asked you to present her. Later I found out that I had already been to bed with her."
"Maria Vetsera: [pointing towards a skull on Rudolph's desk] I don't care for that. Archduke Rudolf: My cousin Ludwig gave it to me. It'd comfort me, he said, for being alive. Maria Vetsera: Ludwig? You mean, King Ludwig of Bavaria? The one who...? Archduke Rudolf: Lies! These stories are all lies! He was just... strange. He was not insane. Nobody knows for sure how he died."
