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Jarmila Novotná
Acting
Born: September 23, 1907
Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
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.
Known For
The Search
as Hannah Malik
The Great Caruso
as Maria Selka
Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates
as Dame Brinker
Fire in the Opera House
as Primadonna
The Last Waltz
as Countess Véra-Élisabétha Opalinsky
The Great Waltz
as Mme. Baranska
Frasquita
as Frasquita
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The Last Waltz
as Countess Vera Lizavetta
Der Kosak und die Nachtigall
as Vera Starschenska, Sängerin
The Bartered Bride
as Marie
