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.
Filmography
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
1973
as Self
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
1958
as Dame Brinker
The Great Waltz
1955
as Mme. Baranska
The Great Caruso
1951
as Maria Selka
The Search
1948
as Hannah Malik
- No poster
The Last Waltz
1936
as Countess Vera Lizavetta
The Cossack and the Nightingale
1936
as Vera Starschenska, Sängerin
The Last Waltz
1936
as Countess Véra-Élisabétha Opalinsky
Frasquita
1934
as Frasquita
- No poster
Skřivánčí píseň
1933
The Night of the Great Love
1933
as Frau Thormaelen
The Bartered Bride
1932
as Marie
The Beggar Student
1931
as Laura
Fire in the Opera House
1930
as Primadonna
- No poster
Vyznavači slunce
1926