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The Great Waltz

as Mme. Baranska

1955
The Great Caruso

as Maria Selka

1951
The Search

as Hannah Malik

1948
Frasquita

as Frasquita

1934
The Bartered Bride

as Marie

1932
The Beggar Student

as Laura

1931
Fire in the Opera House

as Primadonna

1930
Jarmila Novotná Jarmila Novotná

Birthday

1907-09-23

Place of Birth

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.
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