Jarmila Novotná
September 23, 1907 (117 years old) in 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 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
Credits
- 1973 · Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt as Self
- 1958 · Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates as Dame Brinker
- 1955 · The Great Waltz as Mme. Baranska
- 1951 · The Great Caruso as Maria Selka
- 1950 · The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self - Restaurant Owner
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self - Opera Soprano
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- 1948 · The Search as Hannah Malik
- 1936 · Der Kosak und die Nachtigall as Vera Starschenska, Sängerin
- 1936 · The Last Waltz as
- 1934 · Frasquita as Frasquita
- 1933 · Skřivánčí píseň as
- 1933 · The Night of the Great Love as Frau Thormaelen
- 1932 · The Bartered Bride as Marie
- 1931 · The Beggar Student as Laura
- 1930 · Fire in the Opera House as Primadonna
- 1926 · Vyznavači slunce as