Word: vetsera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last day of January in 1889 Archduke Rudolph, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was found shot dead in the royal hunting lodge at Mayerling. Beside him, and apparently the second member of a suicide pact, lay the body of the young Countess Maria Vetsera. Their deaths were the culmination of a hopeless love affair--hopeless because Rudolph had been married long before he ever met Maria. Such a story is the stuff of which fairy tales, or even tragedy, is made, but it certainly did not provide the material for a successful television show...
...lushly romantic Mayerling, Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux played out the theory of a suicide pact, inspired by Emperor Franz Joseph's order to break off the love affair. The real dope, whispers the new picture confidentially, is that the Prince (Jean Marais) and Marie Vetsera (Dominique Blanchar) were victims of a political intrigue. They planned suicide, all right, even left notes. But after they changed their minds, a German agent slipped into the bedroom and finished the job with his pistol...
...later married Rudolph's widow, reconstructs the affair as the climax of a psychopathic melodrama, motivated by Rudolph's unhealthy fascination for sex and death. According to Author Lonyay's version, the bored, philandering Rudolph, morbidly intrigued with the idea of double suicide, talks mistress Marie Vetsera (his third choice for the role) into the act, then takes ten hours to shoot himself after finishing...