Jarmila Novotná
Acting
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.
Filmography 17
Movies (15)
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt1973Self
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates1958Dame Brinker
The Great Waltz1955Mme. Baranska
The Great Caruso1951Maria Selka
The Search1948Hannah Malik- The Last Waltz1936Countess Vera Lizavetta
The Cossack and the Nightingale1936Vera Starschenska, Sängerin
The Last Waltz1936Countess Véra-Élisabétha Opalinsky
Frasquita1934Frasquita- Skřivánčí píseň1933
The Night of the Great Love1933Frau Thormaelen
The Bartered Bride1932Marie
The Beggar Student1931Laura
Fire in the Opera House1930Primadonna- Vyznavači slunce1926
