Schubert - Ave Maria - Deanna Durbin video free download

Deanna Durbin, at age 18, singing Franz Schubert's masterpiece. Here is what Schubert had to say about this song, in a letter to his father:

"My new songs from Scott's 'Lady of the Lake' especially had much success. They also wondered greatly at my piety, which I expressed in a hymn to the Holy Virgin and which, it appears, grips every soul and turns it to devotion."

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Ave Maria

Gratia plena

Maria, gratia plena

Maria, gratia plena

Ave, ave dominus

Dominus tecum

Benedicta tu in mulieribus

Et benedictus

Et benedictus fructus ventris

Tuae, Jesus.

Ave Maria

Ave Maria

Mater Dei

Ora pro nobis peccatoribus

Ora, ora pro nobis

Ora, ora pro nobis peccatoribus

Nunc et in hora mortis

In hora mortis nostrae

In hora mortis, mortis nostrae

In hora mortis nostrae

Ave Maria

Amen

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Hail Mary,

full of grace,

the Lord is with thee;

blessed art thou among women,

and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,

Jesus.

Holy Mary,

Mother of God,

pray for us sinners,

now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

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The close-ups are of her co-stars in the film: Kay Francis, Walter Pidgeon, Cecilia Loftis, Lewis Howard, Samuel S. Hinds, and the wonderful S.Z. Sakall (Carl the waiter from Casablanca) in his American film debut.