Jarmila Novotná
Also Known As: Jarmila Novotná, Novotna
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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
Adult: No
Birthday: September 23, 1907
Age: 117 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: February 09, 1994
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The Last Waltz
Overview: 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 young girl who knew how to conquer his heart at the right time.
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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The Search
Overview: In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother desperately searches for him.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-26
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Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates
Overview: 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 race on the canal.
Genres: Family Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-09
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The Great Waltz
Overview: 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 the older man becomes jealous of his melodic skill.
Genres: TV Movie Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-04
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Frasquita
Overview: Czechoslovakian opera star Jarmila Novotná plays the title role in the Austrian tunefest "Frasquita". Based on a Franz Lehár operetta, the story is the usual frothy nonsense. Dolly (Charlott Daudert) is engaged to marry Harald (Hans Heinz-Bollmann), but she's really in love with Hippolit (Heinz Rühmann). Harald is likewise enamored of another, namely Frasquita (Jarmila Novotná).
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-08-09
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The Great Caruso
Overview: 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. At first, his lack of education and poor background make him an outcast in the high-class opera world. Eventually, his voice wins him both fans and the hand of his love, Dorothy. But his nonstop pace and desire to perform at any cost eventually take their toll on the singer's health.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-16
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The Bartered Bride
Overview: 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. Marie refuses to marry Wenzel because of Hans, but the marriage arranger tries to "buy" Marie from Hans. But when Wenzel tells Hans, that he doesn't want to marry Marie, either, because he loves circus director Brummel's daughter, Hans decides to accept the offer of money for not interferring in the relations of Hans and Marie. But when Marie hears about this, she doesn't want to see Hans again.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-08-18
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The Night of the Great Love
Overview: 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. An American critic was vastly impressed by the day-and-night locale shots, and wrote that the film-maker had discarded and soft-pedaled the soft and sentimental in favor of the realistic and logical.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-07-27
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Der Kosak und die Nachtigall
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-06-01
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Fire in the Opera House
Overview: 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, the Hoffmann rehearsals, the theatre director and his stage director exchanging cynicisms, a budding love affair. Gründgens at his most repulsive, trying to woo both lovers. And a hair-raising finale. Add to this some snappy dialogue and "pre-code" scenes that make you sit up and stare.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-10-13
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The Beggar Student
Overview: 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 student activist.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-02-03
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Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
Overview: "The Great Magician" - Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an Austrian theater and film director, director, theater producer and theater founder. With his Jedermann production on August 22, 1920, he founded the Salzburg Festival.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-10-30
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Vyznavači slunce
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1926-01-22
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Skřivánčí píseň
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1933-08-18
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The Last Waltz
Overview: Based on the 1920 operetta "The Last Waltz" by Oscar Straus.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-21
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