Actor
Jarmila Novotná
119 years · Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic] · 12 films
Jarmila Novotna was Czech soprano singer, stage and screen actress. She made her operatic debut at the Prague Opera House, on June 28, 1925, as Marenka in Smetana's "The Bartered Bride". Her film debut was in "Vyznavaci slunce/The Sun Disciples" (1926). In 1929 she joined the Kroll Opera in Berlin. She created the female lead in Jaromir Weinberger's new operetta "Frühlingsstürme" in 1933, the last music drama produced in the Weimar Republic. Jarmila Nvotna and her singing partner Richard Tauber were both forced to leave Germany by the new Nazi regime.
Best known for
Filmography 12
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
1973 · Self
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
1958 · Dame Brinker
The Great Waltz
1955 · Mme. Baranska
The Great Caruso
1951 · Maria Selka
The Search
1948 · Hannah Malik
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The Cossack and the Nightingale
1936 · Vera Starschenska, Sängerin
The Last Waltz
1936 · Countess Véra-Élisabétha Opalinsky
Frasquita
1934 · Frasquita
The Night of the Great Love
1933 · Frau Thormaelen
The Bartered Bride
1932 · Marie
The Beggar Student
1931 · Laura
Fire in the Opera House
1930 · Primadonna