Jarmila Novotná

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

The Colgate Comedy Hour

The Search

The Great Caruso

Frasquita

Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt

Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates

The Last Waltz

All Movies (15)

• Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt1973 · as Self
• Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates1958 · as Dame Brinker
• The Great Waltz1955 · as Mme. Baranska
• The Great Caruso1951 · as Maria Selka
• The Search1948 · as Hannah Malik
• The Last Waltz1936 · as Countess Vera Lizavetta
• The Cossack and the Nightingale1936 · as Vera Starschenska, Sängerin
• The Last Waltz1936 · as Countess Véra-Élisabétha Opalinsky
• Frasquita1934 · as Frasquita
• Skřivánčí píseň1933
• The Night of the Great Love1933 · as Frau Thormaelen
• The Bartered Bride1932 · as Marie
• The Beggar Student1931 · as Laura
• Fire in the Opera House1930 · as Primadonna
• Vyznavači slunce1926

All TV Shows (2)

• The Colgate Comedy Hour1950 · as Self - Restaurant Owner
• The Ed Sullivan Show1948 · as Self