Jarmila Novotná
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 23, 1907, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
- Died
- February 9, 1994
- Movies
- 15
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1973 | Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt | Self |
| 1958 | Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates | Dame Brinker |
| 1955 | The Great Waltz | Mme. Baranska |
| 1951 | The Great Caruso | Maria Selka |
| 1948 | The Search | Hannah Malik |
| 1936 | The Last Waltz | Countess Vera Lizavetta |
| 1936 | The Cossack and the Nightingale | Vera Starschenska, Sängerin |
| 1936 | The Last Waltz | Countess Véra-Élisabétha Opalinsky |
| 1934 | Frasquita | Frasquita |
| 1933 | Skřivánčí píseň | |
| 1933 | The Night of the Great Love | Frau Thormaelen |
| 1932 | The Bartered Bride | Marie |
| 1931 | The Beggar Student | Laura |
| 1930 | Fire in the Opera House | Primadonna |
| 1926 | Vyznavači slunce |
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