Jarmila Novotná
1907-09-23 (1907)Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]Acting
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
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV • 1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
The Great Caruso
MOVIE • 1951
The Search
MOVIE • 1948
Frasquita
MOVIE • 1934
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
MOVIE • 1958
The Bartered Bride
MOVIE • 1932
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
MOVIE • 1973
Fire in the Opera House
MOVIE • 1930
The Night of the Great Love
MOVIE • 1933
Der Kosak und die Nachtigall
MOVIE • 1936
The Last Waltz
MOVIE • 1936
The Beggar Student
MOVIE • 1931
The Great Waltz
MOVIE • 1955