Jarmila Novotná
Biography
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.
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Movies (15)
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
as Self
1973
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
as Dame Brinker
1958
The Great Waltz
as Mme. Baranska
1955
The Great Caruso
as Maria Selka
1951
The Search
as Hannah Malik
1948
The Last Waltz
as Countess Vera Lizavetta
1936
Der Kosak und die Nachtigall
as Vera Starschenska, Sängerin
1936
The Last Waltz
as Countess Véra-Élisabétha Opalinsky
1936
Frasquita
as Frasquita
1934
Skřivánčí píseň
1933
The Night of the Great Love
as Frau Thormaelen
1933
The Bartered Bride
as Marie
1932
The Beggar Student
as Laura
1931
Fire in the Opera House
as Primadonna
1930
Vyznavači slunce
1926
