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Czech opera soprano Jarmila Novotna made her professional debut in Prague in 1925, singing the title role of The Bartered Bride. When talking pictures arrived, she headlined the 1932 German film version of Bartered Bride, among other productions. She then left films to concentrate on her stage work with the Vienesse State Opera and New York's Metropolitan Opera, where she performed regularly from 1940 to 1956. In 1946 she returned before the cameras in a straight dramatic role in Fred Zinneman's The Search. Jarmila Novotna's last film appearance was as turn of the century diva Maria Selka in the 1951 biopic The Great Caruso.