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Jarmila Novotná

Jarmila Novotná

Birthday: 1907-09-23 | Place of Birth: Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1958
Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates

as    Dame Brinker

1955
The Great Waltz

as    Mme. Baranska

1951
The Great Caruso

as    Maria Selka

1948
The Search

as    Hannah Malik

1936
The Last Waltz

as    Countess Vera Lizavetta

1936
The Last Waltz

as    Countess Véra-Élisabétha Opalinsky

1934
Frasquita

as    Frasquita

1933
The Night of the Great Love

as    Frau Thormaelen

1932
The Bartered Bride

as    Marie

1931
The Beggar Student

as    Laura

1930
Fire in the Opera House

as    Primadonna