Jarmila Novotná
Born: 1907-09-23 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
Died: 1994-02-09
Known For: 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
1973
1958
- Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates as Dame Brinker
1955
- The Great Waltz as Mme. Baranska
1951
- The Great Caruso as Maria Selka
1950
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self - Restaurant Owner
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- The Search as Hannah Malik
1936
- The Cossack and the Nightingale as Vera Starschenska, Sängerin
- The Last Waltz as Countess Véra-Élisabétha Opalinsky
- The Last Waltz as Countess Vera Lizavetta
1934
- Frasquita as Frasquita
1933
- The Night of the Great Love as Frau Thormaelen
- Skřivánčí píseň
1932
- The Bartered Bride as Marie
1931
- The Beggar Student as Laura
1930
- Fire in the Opera House as Primadonna