Born 1907 (age 86) · Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
Appears in 17 titles

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.

Filmography

The Search
7.0
The Search
1948
as Hannah Malik
The Great Caruso
5.9
The Great Caruso
1951
as Maria Selka
The Bartered Bride
6.3
The Bartered Bride
1932
as Marie
Frasquita
6.3
Frasquita
1934
as Frasquita
The Night of the Great Love
3.0
The Night of the Great Love
1933
as Frau Thormaelen
Fire in the Opera House
7.5
Fire in the Opera House
1930
as Primadonna
The Last Waltz
9.0
The Last Waltz
1936
as Countess Véra-Élisabétha Opalinsky
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
9.0
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
1958
as Dame Brinker
The Great Waltz
10.0
The Great Waltz
1955
as Mme. Baranska
The Cossack and the Nightingale
8.0
The Cossack and the Nightingale
1936
as Vera Starschenska, Sängerin
The Beggar Student
7.0
The Beggar Student
1931
as Laura
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
9.0
The Last Waltz
1936
as Countess Vera Lizavetta