Jarmila Novotná
Actor
Born September 23, 1907 in 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.
Filmography
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
Self
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
Dame Brinker
The Great Waltz
Mme. Baranska
The Great Caruso
Maria Selka
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self - Restaurant Owner
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
The Search
Hannah Malik
The Cossack and the Nightingale
Vera Starschenska, Sängerin
The Last Waltz
Countess Véra-Élisabétha Opalinsky
Frasquita
Frasquita
The Night of the Great Love
Frau Thormaelen
The Bartered Bride
Marie
The Beggar Student
Laura
Fire in the Opera House
Primadonna