Jarmila Novotná
Actor
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
The Great Caruso
as Maria Selka 1951
The Bartered Bride
as Marie 1932
Frasquita
as Frasquita 1934
The Night of the Great Love
as Frau Thormaelen 1933
Fire in the Opera House
as Primadonna 1930
The Last Waltz
as Countess Véra-Élisabétha Opalinsky 1936
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
as Dame Brinker 1958
The Great Waltz
as Mme. Baranska 1955
Der Kosak und die Nachtigall
as Vera Starschenska, Sängerin 1936
The Beggar Student
as Laura 1931
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
as Self 1973
Vyznavači slunce
1926
Skřivánčí píseň
1933