Jarmila Novotná
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.12 |
| Birthday | 1907-09-23 |
| Place of Birth | Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic] |
| Also Known As | Jarmila Novotná, Novotna, |
1948
The Search
6.91/67
In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother desperatel...
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The Search
1934
Frasquita
4/1
Czechoslovakian opera star Jarmila Novotna plays the title role in the Austrian tunefest Frasquita. Based on a Franz Lehar operetta, the story is the...
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Frasquita
1951
The Great Caruso
5.6/15
Enrico Caruso's only passion is to sing. For that, he leaves his hometown of Naples, Italy, and travels to America to sing for the Metropolitan Opera....
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The Great Caruso
1933
The Night of the Great Love
1/1
The story, set in Constantinople, of a young man who falls in love with a woman much older than he is, and her daughter falls in love with him also. A...
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The Night of the Great Love
1932
The Bartered Bride
5.8/6
Bohemia in the 19th century, stage-coach driver Hans, loves the mayor's daughter Marie, but she is promised Wenzel, the son of another wealthy farmer....
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The Bartered Bride
1936
Der Kosak und die Nachtigall
0/0
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Der Kosak und die Nachtigall
1930
Fire in the Opera House
5/1
It begins with a Tannhäuser performance and ends with the premiere of The Tales of Hoffmann. In between a young ingénue cast in her first big role, th...
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Fire in the Opera House
1931
The Beggar Student
0/0
First of several filmed versions of a popular period operetta, in which an early 18th century noblewoman in Poland falls in love with a revolutionary...
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The Beggar Student
1973
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
0/0
"The Great Magician" - Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an Austrian theater and film director, director, theater producer and theater founder. With his J...
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Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
1926
Vyznavači slunce
0/0
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Vyznavači slunce
1933
Skřivánčí píseň
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Skřivánčí píseň
1936
The Last Waltz
0/0
Count Dimitri is sentenced to death for hitting Prince Paul who was trying to steal a kiss from Countess Vera. Prince Paul pardons him because of a yo...
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The Last Waltz
1958
Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates
0/0
In Holland, poor but industrious and honorable 15-year-old Hans Brinker and his younger sister yearn to participate in December's great ice skating ra...
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Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates
1955
The Great Waltz
0/0
Johann Strauss, Jr., a would-be composer of waltzes in mid-19th Century Vienna, attempts to thwart his father's efforts to prevent his success when th...
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