Jarmila Novotná
Acting
Born: 1907-09-23 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
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 Ed Sullivan Show
Self
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self - Restaurant Owner
The Great Caruso
Maria Selka
Frasquita
Frasquita
The Search
Hannah Malik
Fire in the Opera House
Primadonna
Skřivánčí píseň
The Cossack and the Nightingale
Vera Starschenska, Sängerin
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
Dame Brinker
The Night of the Great Love
Frau Thormaelen
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
Self
The Great Waltz
Mme. Baranska
The Beggar Student
Laura
The Bartered Bride
Marie
The Last Waltz
Countess Véra-Élisabétha Opalinsky