Mayerling (1968)

Ava Gardner: Empress Elizabeth

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• Empress Elizabeth : And my granddaughter? I hate that word too.

  Archduke Rudolf : Oh! She's enchanting. Luckily she takes after neither of her parents.

  Empress Elizabeth : Perhaps, a melancholy temperament can skip a generation. Like insanity.

  Archduke Rudolf : In this family that could not have been meant as a joke. Not in this family. Never.

• Empress Elizabeth : Do you know what he said to me the day he was married? "Mother, say a prayer for me." And I said "what prayer shall I make for you?" And he said "Pray to God that I should never fall in love."