Lída Baarová

Lída Baarová (September 14, 1914 in Prague – October 28, 2000 in Salzburg) was a movie actress. Born Ludmila Babková, she studied acting at Prague's conservatory and got her first movie role in a Czech film at the age of 17. Her mother appeared in several theater plays and her younger sister, Zorka Jan?, was also a movie actress. Lida Baarova's first love affair was with the film director Karel Lama?. People who used to know her reminisce that she was the most beautiful woman they have ever seen. The foremost Czech movie director, Otakar Vavra said that her beauty likely infatuated every man she met. After being discovered by talent scouts for the German movie studios, Lida Baarova left Prague for Berlin.

Filmography

• Hitlerovy zeny (The Loves of Adolph Hitler, 2001)
• Sladke horkosti Lidy Baarove (Lida Baarová's Bittersweet Memories, 1995)
• The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1970)
• Il Cielo brucia (The Sky Burns, 1957)
• Retorno a la verdad (The Truth Will Set You Free, 1957)
• El Batallón de las sombras (1957)
• Rapsodia de sangre (Ecstasy, 1957)
• Todos somos necesarios (1956)
• Viaje de novios (Honeymoon, 1956)
• La Mestiza (The Mestiza, 1956)
• Miedo (1956)
• Gli innocenti pagano (What Price Innocence? 1953)
• Pietà per chi cade (Compassion, 1953)
• I Vitelloni (The Loafers, 1953)
• La vendetta di una pazza (1952)
• Carne inquieta (Restless, 1952)
• Gli amanti di Ravello (The Lovers of Ravello, 1950)
• La Bisarca (1950)
• Vivere ancora (1944)
• L' Ippocampo (1944)
• Il Cappello da prete (1944)
• Ti conosco, mascherina! (1943)
• Grazia (1943)
• Turbina (Turbine, 1941)
• Palicova dcera (Arsonist's Daughter, 1941)
• Za tichych noci (In the Still of the Night, 1941)
• Dívka v modrém (Girl in Blue, 1940)
• Zivot je krásný (Life Is Beautiful, 1940)
• Artur a Leontyna (Arthur and Leontine, 1940)
• Ohnivé léto (Fiery Summer, 1939)
• Die Geliebte (Love of my Life, 1939)
• Männer müssen so sein (Men Are That Way, 1939)
• Maskovana milenka (Mask of my Girlfriend, 1939)
• Liebeslegende (Love Story, 1938)
• Der Spieler - Roman eines Schwindlers (Gambler's Story, 1938)
• Die Fledermaus (The Bat, 1937)
• Die Kronzeugin (The Chief Witness, 1937)
• Panenstvi (Virginity, 1937)
• Lide na kre (People on the Floating Ice, 1937)
• Patrioten (Patriots, 1937)
• Unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit (Private Show, 1937)
• Komediantska Princezna (Gypsy Princess, 1936)
• Svadlenka (The Seamstress, 1936)
• Die Stunde der Versuchung (The Hour of Temptation, 1936)
• Verräter (Traitor, 1936)
• Barcarole (Boatman's Song, 1935)
• Leutnant Bobby, der Teufelskerl, (Lieutenant Bobby, the Daredevil, 1935)
• Einer zuviel an Bord (The Fifth-Wheel, 1935)
• Grandhotel Nevada, (Grand Hotel Nevada, 1934)
• Dokud mas maminku (As Long as your Mother is Alive, 1934)
• Zlata Katerina (Golden Kate, 1934)
• Na ruzich ustlano (Easy Life, 1934)
• Pan na roztrhani (A Popular Guy, 1934)
• Pokuseni pani Antonie (Antonia's Temptation, 1934)
• Jeji lekar (The Physician, 1933)
• Sedma velmoc (The Seventh Superpower, 1933)
• Okenko (The Window, 1933)
• Madla z cihelny (The Brickmaker's Daughter, 1933)
• Jsem devce s certem v tele (Funky Girl, 1933)
• Funebrak (The Undertaker, 1932)
• Malostransti musketyri (Prague's Musketeers, 1932)
• Ruzové kombiné (The Pink Slip, 1932)
• Senkyrka u divoké krasky (Slinging hash at the Crazy Beauty's Bar, 1932)
• Lelicek ve sluzbach Sherlocka Holmese (Lelicek in Sherlock Holmes' Service, 1932)
• Zapadli vlastenci (Forgotten Patriots, 1932)
• Kariera Pavla Camrdy (Pavel Camrda's Career, 1931)
• Obraceni Ferdyse Pistory (Conversion of Fred Pistora, 1931)