Jarmila Novotná

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Jarmila Novotná

Acting September 23, 1907

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…

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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.

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  1. 1973
  2. 1958
    Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates

    Movie Dame Brinker

  3. 1955
    The Great Waltz

    Movie Mme. Baranska

  4. 1951
    The Great Caruso

    Movie Maria Selka

  5. 1950
    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    TV show Self - Restaurant Owner

  6. 1948
    The Ed Sullivan Show

    TV show Self

  7. 1948
    The Search

    Movie Hannah Malik

  8. 1936
    The Last Waltz

    Movie Countess Vera Lizavetta

  9. 1936
    The Cossack and the Nightingale

    Movie Vera Starschenska, Sängerin

  10. 1936
    The Last Waltz

    Movie Countess Véra-Élisabétha Opalinsky

  11. 1934
    Frasquita

    Movie Frasquita

  12. 1933
  13. 1933
    The Night of the Great Love

    Movie Frau Thormaelen

  14. 1932
    The Bartered Bride

    Movie Marie

  15. 1931
    The Beggar Student

    Movie Laura

  16. 1930
    Fire in the Opera House

    Movie Primadonna

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  1. 1926