Lida Baarova Tribute

Lida Barrova was a legendary Czech actress, regarded as one of the most beautiful women of her time. She was one of the most famous and successful Czech actresses to have ever lived.
Her career spanned over 70 years, in the course of which she starred in a whole number of both Czech and German film classics. She even made it into Federico Fellinis I Vitelloni in 1953. But she is perhaps best known for her life off-screen, as one of Czech films most unhappy characters. Lída Baarovás beauty attracted the attention of Joseph Goebbels, and her career - tragically for her - reached its peak in Nazi Germany shortly before World War Two.
She played young girls especially but it is true that in her beauty there was a sort of maturity and spirit. So that meant that she often ended up playing educated women, and playing them well. She really had lashings of charm and received a lot of offers from foreign studios. One that she turned down, which she regretted for the rest of her life, was from MGM. She always said afterwards that if she had taken it, she would have got out of Central Europe before WWII began, and would have got out of the Czech-German surroundings that caused her so much misfortune and unhappiness.
Baarovás beauty attracted the attention of some people in very high places. Hitler became infatuated with her, it is said. But this only lasted for a short while, and their relationship remained platonic. But it was Joseph Goebbels, Hitlers second in command, who fell head over heels in love with her and became her lover. He was completely obsessed with her and willing to leave his wife, his family, for her. And as she herself admitted in her memoirs, before she got spooked and started revising them, she herself said that she was enchanted by him. He may have been a bad person, but as a young girl she saw him as a powerful minister in a foreign government, and a charming man. Their relationship caused such a scandal that she was banned from starring in any more German films. Her career there was over. She was banned from appearing at the request of Goebbels wife, who was a good friend of Hitler. She went to Hitler and told him that her husband had gone half crazy over some Czech actress, and Hitler put a very quick stop to it. Lída Baarová came back to Prague.
Baarova was jailed for a year and a half after the war for having collaborated with the Nazis. Her sister, who was also an actress, was blacklisted because of Lída and subsequently committed suicide. The girls mother was also taken in for interrogation, where she suffered a heart attack and died.
Upon release from prison, with very few remaining relatives in what was then Czechoslovakia, Baarová emigrated to Austria, where she remained for the rest of her life. She returned to the Czech Republic on several occasions after the Velvet Revolution in 1989, and those who met her often talked of her as a chain-smoking, rather sad, very pretty old woman.

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[Yanna1982]

Souhlasim, ze Jitka Cvancarova se ji hodne podoba, asi nejvic ze vsech ceskych herecek. Doufam, ze to pan Renc nevzda a pujde do toho. Mohl by to byt zajimavy a krasny film.

[orietka]

Filip Renč bude točit konečně film o Lídě !!!!

[Yanna1982]

Take jsem o tom neco slysela, to by bylo super kdyby to vyslo. Nevite jestli je to uz hotova vec nebo to jeste neni jiste??? Kdo asi bude hrat Lidu Baarovou? Renc to nebude mit lehke vybrat herecku, ktera by se ji podobala. Lida byla vyjimecne krasna zena!!!

[pejrakzofre]

Dnešní modelky a herečky jsou proti Lídě hyzdy!

[lukascus]

no myslím, že hezčí herečku už češi mít nebudou :-) byla fakt důstojně krásná

[Adinamandlova1910]

A nemyslíte si, že je lepší nechat její osobní život plavat stejně Adině Mandlové, tyto dvě ženy možná byly kolaborantky, ale nemusí se do jejích života plést.. DŮLEŽITÉ BYLO JE A BUDE, JAKOU MĚLY TYTO DVĚ NEOBYČEJNÉ HVĚZDY KARIÉRU A CO DOKÁZALY!! TO JE TO HLAVNÍ!! CO NÁM DO JEJÍCH OSOBNÍHO ŽIVOTA, HLAVNĚ JE DŮLEŽITÉ, JAKÝ MĚLY TYTO DVĚ ŽENY ÚSPĚCH!!! TO SI PAMATUJTE!!!...

[Adinamandlova1910]

Lída Baarová byla podobná Květě Fialové, v jedné fotce se jí hrozně moc podobá..!

[Rudipolt]

Lida You are just fine!

Aloha from Hawaii!

[JanaSklibova]

Je to moc pěkné. Povedlo se Vám to. Mohla bych znát název písničky, prosím?

[septmay9]

DÍKY!!!

[ZarahLean]

@braunau88 Anyone who defends Goebbels is much more immoral than Baarova could ever be. She tried to further her career by being involved with him and it backfired. The Russians jailed her for being a Nazi fellow traveller. I read her book. While I think she was more naive than evil, I feel about as sorry for her as she did for her own Czech countrymen under Nazism. A beautiful woman. Talented. Not much of a great person.

[Jitulema]

@Yanna1982 Ahoj, zatím to pořád nedopadlo, ale mně by líbila například Jitka Čvančarová, zdá se mi jí dost podobná....

[ReinerDe]

Ahoj. Souhlasím. Také jsem přečetl dost knih o našich hercích té doby.

Byla to krásná žena, stejně jako např. Mandlová, Gollová ... a spojení s Němci? Upřímně je mi to fuk. Hlavně protože nejvíc na ně udávali čeští zbabělci a intrikáni, samotní kolaboranti. Závist je hrozná věc. Kdo četl, ví.

[cekira078]

Její životní příběh by si zasloužil zfilmovat...nechápu kecy jakože to byla ¨kolaborantka apod, když o ní nic nevíte a nic ste nečetli tak blbě nekecejte!!