Jarmila Novotná
Birthday
1907/09/23
Day of death
1994/02/09 (86 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
Also know as
Jarmila Novotná, Novotna
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.
Acting
(1936) The Last Waltz
as Countess Véra-Élisabétha Opalinsky
(1948) The Search
as Hannah Malik
(1958) Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates
as Dame Brinker
(1955) The Great Waltz
as Mme. Baranska
(1934) Frasquita
as Frasquita
(1951) The Great Caruso
as Maria Selka
(1932) The Bartered Bride
as Marie
(1933) The Night of the Great Love
as Frau Thormaelen
(1936) Der Kosak und die Nachtigall
as Vera Starschenska, Sängerin
(1930) Fire in the Opera House
as Primadonna
(1931) The Beggar Student
as Laura
(1973) Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
as Self
(1926) Vyznavači slunce
as ---
(1933) Skřivánčí píseň
as ---
(1936) The Last Waltz
as Countess Vera Lizavetta
(1950) The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self - Restaurant Owner
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self