Ave Maria (1936)
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Ave Maria is a film set in 1936. It stars the famous opera tenor Beniamino Gigli
and a German film star of the time Käthe von Nagy
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plays a wealthy, famous and older opera singer who is grieving for his dead wife, a devoted French girl. Each year he comes to Paris to visit her grave, but is forced to go through with a concert his manager has arranged. The manager visits a seedy night club and, while drunk, tells a cabaret entertainer and her lover of that the singer is very unhappy and also wealthy.
The scheming night club girl played by Käthe von Nagy
meets and accompanies the singer to Naples, pretending to be upset about his wife's demise. The singer and the girl are later engaged, but he discovers her lies and she, now genuinely in love with him, drives away in a car, but is badly injured in a resulting serious car crash. The singer, now aware of her repentance and true affectation for him, takes her for his bride.
Beniamino Gigli
Beniamino Gigli was an Italian opera singer. The most famous tenor of his generation, he was renowned internationally for the great beauty of his voice and the soundness of his vocal technique. Music critics sometimes took him to task, however, for what was perceived to be the over-emotionalism...
and a German film star of the time Käthe von Nagy
Käthe von Nagy
Käthe von Nagy , as Ekaterina Nagy von Cziser; † 20 December 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA) was an Hungarian actress.-Life History and Films:...
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Film story
GigliGigli
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plays a wealthy, famous and older opera singer who is grieving for his dead wife, a devoted French girl. Each year he comes to Paris to visit her grave, but is forced to go through with a concert his manager has arranged. The manager visits a seedy night club and, while drunk, tells a cabaret entertainer and her lover of that the singer is very unhappy and also wealthy.
The scheming night club girl played by Käthe von Nagy
Käthe von Nagy
Käthe von Nagy , as Ekaterina Nagy von Cziser; † 20 December 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA) was an Hungarian actress.-Life History and Films:...
meets and accompanies the singer to Naples, pretending to be upset about his wife's demise. The singer and the girl are later engaged, but he discovers her lies and she, now genuinely in love with him, drives away in a car, but is badly injured in a resulting serious car crash. The singer, now aware of her repentance and true affectation for him, takes her for his bride.