Antonín Novotný (15 March 1913 – 24 April 2005) was a Czech
film actor
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. He starred in more than twenty Czech films during the 1930s and the early years of the
German occupation
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. He went to
Hollywood
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* Hollywood ...
in 1937 to be tested by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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who were interested in developing him as a new star, but returned to
Prague
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without making any films there. After his retirement from acting he became a
researcher
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into
vitreous enamel
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.
Selected filmography
* ''
The Mystery of the Blue Room'' (1933)
* ''
In the Little House Below Emauzy'' (1933)
* ''
The Little Pet
''The Little Pet'' () is a 1934 Czech comedy film directed by Martin Frič.
Cast
* Hugo Haas as Dr. Alois Pech, a prison librarian
* Adina Mandlová as Marcella Johnová
* František Kreuzmann as Pospísil
* Helena Bušová
* Jan Marek as Be ...
'' (1934)
* ''
The Last Man
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'' (1934)
* ''
Lojzička'' (1936)
*''
Vzdusné torpédo 48'' (1937)
* ''
The Catacombs'' (1940)
* ''
The Blue Star Hotel
''The Blue Star Hotel'' () is a Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Martin Frič. It is a remake of a Karel Lamač's German film '' The Love Hotel''.
Cast
* Nataša Gollová as Zuzana Nedbalová
* Oldřich Nový as Vladimír Rychta Rohan
* ...
'' (1941)
References
Bibliography
* Bartošek, Luboš. ''Náš film: kapitoly z dějin, 1896-1945''. Mladá fronta, 1985. p. 393.
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. p. 274.
External links
*
1913 births
2005 deaths
Czech male film actors
People from Tábor
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