Jarmila Novotná
Actor
- Born
- September 23, 1907 · Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
- Died
- February 9, 1994 (age 86)
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.
Known for
The Search
March 26, 1948
The Great Caruso
April 16, 1951
The Bartered Bride
August 18, 1932
Frasquita
August 9, 1934
The Night of the Great Love
July 27, 1933
Fire in the Opera House
October 13, 1930
The Last Waltz
January 1, 1936
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
February 9, 1958
The Great Waltz
November 4, 1955
The Cossack and the Nightingale
June 1, 1936
The Beggar Student
February 3, 1931
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
October 30, 1973
Acting15
- 1973Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt as Self
- 1958Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates as Dame Brinker
- 1955The Great Waltz as Mme. Baranska
- 1951The Great Caruso as Maria Selka
- 1948The Search as Hannah Malik
- 1936The Last Waltz as Countess Vera Lizavetta
- 1936The Cossack and the Nightingale as Vera Starschenska, Sängerin
- 1936The Last Waltz as Countess Véra-Élisabétha Opalinsky
- 1934Frasquita as Frasquita
- 1933