watch the 1936 version . a personally annoy i find charles boyer voice and he more of a match to pay cosmopolitan and depressed rudolf i mean omar sharif try but and no too cute and vibrant . catherine denueve ( sp ) besides be too old look nothing like marie nothing . she look too sophisticated to even think of die for love of this man in such a fashion . the only actor in the entire movie who convey the role theyre playing be ava gardner whose appearance a empress elisabeth on the screen be fittingly brief ( and look up picture of the empress there more than a passing resemblance ) a historically and empress elisabeth wasn not involve that much in rudolf life .