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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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1973
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
Movie Self
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1958
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
Movie Dame Brinker
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1955
The Great Waltz
Movie Mme. Baranska
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1951
The Great Caruso
Movie Maria Selka
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1950
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV show Self - Restaurant Owner
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1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV show Self
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1948
The Search
Movie Hannah Malik
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1936
The Last Waltz
Movie Countess Vera Lizavetta
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1936
The Cossack and the Nightingale
Movie Vera Starschenska, Sängerin
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1936
The Last Waltz
Movie Countess Véra-Élisabétha Opalinsky
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1934
Frasquita
Movie Frasquita
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1933
Skřivánčí píseň
Movie
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1933
The Night of the Great Love
Movie Frau Thormaelen
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1932
The Bartered Bride
Movie Marie
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1931
The Beggar Student
Movie Laura
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1930
Fire in the Opera House
Movie Primadonna
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1926
Vyznavači slunce
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