Born
1907-09-23 (age 118)
Birthplace
Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
Known For
Acting
Jarmila Novotná
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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
The Last Waltz
as Countess Véra-Élisabétha Opalinsky
1936
The Search
as Hannah Malik
1948
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
as Dame Brinker
1958
The Great Waltz
as Mme. Baranska
1955
Frasquita
as Frasquita
1934
The Great Caruso
as Maria Selka
1951
The Bartered Bride
as Marie
1932
The Night of the Great Love
as Frau Thormaelen
1933
The Cossack and the Nightingale
as Vera Starschenska, Sängerin
1936
Fire in the Opera House
as Primadonna
1930
The Beggar Student
as Laura
1931
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
as Self
1973
Vyznavači slunce
1926
Skřivánčí píseň
1933
The Last Waltz
as Countess Vera Lizavetta
1936
