Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1907-09-23
Day of Death
1994-02-09
Place of Birth
Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
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 (15)
⭐ 9.0
Role:
Self
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
1973
⭐ 9.0
Role:
Dame Brinker
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
1958
⭐ 10.0
Role:
Mme. Baranska
The Great Waltz
1955
⭐ 5.9
Role:
Maria Selka
The Great Caruso
1951
⭐ 7.0
Role:
Hannah Malik
The Search
1948No Image
⭐ 9.0
Role:
Countess Vera Lizavetta
The Last Waltz
1936
⭐ 8.0
Role:
Vera Starschenska, Sängerin
The Cossack and the Nightingale
1936
⭐ 9.0
Role:
Countess Véra-Élisabétha Opalinsky
The Last Waltz
1936
⭐ 6.3
Role:
Frasquita
Frasquita
1934No Image
⭐ 9.0
Role:
Unknown
Skřivánčí píseň
1933
⭐ 3.0
Role:
Frau Thormaelen
The Night of the Great Love
1933
⭐ 6.3
Role:
Marie
The Bartered Bride
1932
⭐ 7.0
Role:
Laura
The Beggar Student
1931
⭐ 7.5
Role:
Primadonna
Fire in the Opera House
1930No Image
⭐ 9.0
Role:
Unknown