
Lída Baarová
Acting
Biography
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Born: September 7, 1914
Place of Birth: Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. [now in Czech Republic]
Known For

I Vitelloni
Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.

Lelíček in the Services of Sherlock Holmes
The Portorican prime minister asks British detective Sherlock Holmes to find a twin for King Fernando XXIII, a weak and frightened man who fears anarchists and does not want to show himself in public. Holmes finds in the Czech newspapers a photo of the perfect double, František Lelíček, a daring bon vivant drowned in debt, so when Holmes offers him money, Lelíček decides to travel to Portorico and play the role.

The Masked Lover
A romantic story of a noble lady who wanted to live without the bonds of marriage, but her desire for a child led her - carefully disguised - into the arms of a young nobleman. Only years later did she believe in his love and make herself known.

The Girl in Blue
A painting of a girl from another time comes to life for it's buyer in this costume comedy.

The Traitor
This 1936 film tells the story of the doings of foreign agents in Germany and their allies among the German population. Having placed an ad in a local paper looking for "contact with bigwigs in German industry", enemy agents Morris and Geyer end up making contact with an engineer named Brockau. Brockau has developed an improvement in turning oil into gasoline and that's just what these enemy agents are looking for. Brockau, for his part, needs money, because his girlfriend is a selfish cow who demands more and more toys and trinkets, which has put our naive little nerd deep into debt. Brockau, however, is not the only unwitting maroon to fall into the clutches of the evil agents: the former bank agent Hans Klemm, now doing his service in the Wehrmacht, ends up being contacted by an agent from the other side and ends up getting blackmailed into working for them.

Pietà per chi cade
Carlo Savelli, gone missing after the war, returns to Italia after many years. His wife Anna, believing him dead, has established a romance with Andrea, and in order to keep him happy, she follows him to Venice.

Život je krásný
A famous writer seeks the favor of a charming aspiring artist. However, Jarmila intends to dedicate her life to art, and men should have no other place in it than as models for the artist's work. So, the lovelorn Jan disguises himself as a fortune teller and a grandfather with a scythe, just so that the chosen beauty will notice him a little...

The Seamstress
Even though the heroine works as a seamstress, she would like to become a designer. And she really has the talent, even a businessman from Paris shows interest in her. But many things turn out to be different than they seem at first. This applies to people and love.

Pokušení paní Antonie

Okénko
Associate Professor Jakub Johanek was looking forward to his uncle's inheritance and celebrated it with his friends in advance, not knowing what treasures he could actually expect. He had a few too many drinks and woke up the next day with a perfect window. He is tormented by a hangover, and on top of that, the housekeeper comes in with a statement that he robbed her daughter of her wedding ring yesterday - so the associate professor is in for a quick wedding. Although Jakub has been eyeing the girl for a long time, he now has completely different concerns. He has been approached by a certain loafer who claims to have seen Johanek set fire to a stack of wood at night with his own eyes. If he doesn't get a hefty ransom, he will go and report him...
Filmography
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Herself (archive footage)
as Little girl's mother
as Anna Vladimira Solov
as Adela
as Condesa Sara
as Laura
as Eugenia
as Giulia Curti
as Adriana
as Ida
as Greta
as Fróna
as Elisabetta Kalmacky
as Marinella
as Margherita (aka "la fornarina")
as Elisa
as Tynda
as Rozárka Valentová
as Jana Radimská
as Jarmila Bendová
as Lenka Rossetiová
as Komtesa Blanka z Blankenburgu
as Rosa
as Nina, seine Tochter
as Hana Poláčková
as Maria Weigel / Rosalinde
as MUDr. Pavla Junková
as Líze Bártová
as Irene
as Marion Brokau
as Eva
as Gerda Hegert
as Lady Milton, eine junge Witwe
as Giacinta Zubarab
as Marianna
as Lucy Whitemanová
as Jana Machová
as Milada
as Vlasta
as Madla
as Růžena
as Irena
as Eva Konrádová
as paní Rozmarová
as The Queen / Her Doppelganger
as Viktorka