Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 23, 1907
Place of Birth
Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
Also Known As
- Jarmila Novotná
- Novotna
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.
Known For - Movies
The Great Caruso
as Maria Selka
The Search
as Hannah Malik
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
as Dame Brinker
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
as Self
The Night of the Great Love
as Frau Thormaelen
Frasquita
as Frasquita
The Last Waltz
as Countess Vera Lizavetta
The Great Waltz
as Mme. Baranska
The Bartered Bride
as Marie
The Last Waltz
as Countess Véra-Élisabétha Opalinsky
