Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
17
Gender
Female
Birthday
1907-09-23
Day of Death
1994-02-09 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
Also Known As
Jarmila Novotná
Novotna
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.
