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Lída Baarová (September 14 1914 – October 27 2000) was a Czech actress famous for her love affair with Josef Goebbels.
Biography
Born Ludmila Babková, she studied acting at Prague 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 Janů, was also a movie actress. Lida Baarova's
first love affair was with the film director Karel Lamač. People who used to know her reminisce
that she was the most beautiful woman they have ever seen. The foremost Czech movie director, Otakar Vávra said that her beauty likely infatuated every man she met. After being discovered by
talent scouts for the German movie studios, Lídá Baarova left Prague for Berlin.
The road to fame
In Berlin she met Gustav Fröhlich, an actor in the German cinema, and starred in
several films with him. In 1935, following her successful appearance in the German film Barcarole, she received several
job offers from the Hollywood studios. She turned them down, but later regretted it and told her biographer, Josef Škvorecký:
Baarova and Frohlich cheerfully speak with Goebbels during a party in 1936.
I could have been as famous as Marlene Dietrich.
After her engagement to Gustav Fröhlich, she and her fiancé moved to the Schwanenwerder peninsula on the outskirts of Berlin,
where their house on the (later named) Karl-Marx-Straße 8 was close to the residence of Joseph
Goebbels on Inselstraße 8. Joseph Goebbels was a minister in Chancellor Hitler's administration, with a decisive voice in
German movie production. Lída Baarová met Joseph Goebbels while working for Ufa films.
They started what may have been a love affair that lasted for over a year and caused her breakup with Gustav Fröhlich.
After Goebbels' wife Magda learned about this affair, she complained to
Adolf Hitler. Hitler, who himself was not immune to Baarová's beauty, was the godfather of
Goebbels' children, and sympathetic towards Magda; he asked Goebbels to end the
affair. Goebbels offered his resignation instead. He wanted to divorce his wife, marry Lída Baarová, and leave Germany with his
Liduška, (Czech diminutive of Lída, connoting love), as he affectionatedly called her, for Japan. However, Hitler did not accept
his resignation. On October 15, 1938, Joseph Goebbels attempted
suicide.
Shortly afterwards, Lída Baarová received a call from the German police that she was a persona non grata and was given consilium abeundi to leave Germany.
She went to Prague and, in 1941, to Italy, where she starred in such
movies as Grazia (1943), La Fornarina (1944), Vivere ancora (1945), and others. After American troops
occupied Italy, she returned to Prague, where she dated her old friend Hans Albers, another
of Germany's movie idols. In April of 1945, Lída Baarová left Prague for Germany, to join Albers in his country house on the
shores of Lake Starnberg. On the way, she was taken into custody by the American military
police, imprisoned in Munich, and later extradited to Czechoslovakia.
The post-war years
In Czechoslovakia, Baarová faced a death sentence for her work with the Germans during the war, but she was able to prove that
she worked in Germany before the war and received only a prison sentence. Thus, in a way, her love affair with Joseph
Goebbels and subsequent expulsion from Germany saved her life. In prison, she was often visited by Jan Kopecký who, like many
others, was infatuated with her. Kopecký was a close relative of a prominent politician in the post-war government of
Czechoslovakia who arranged Lída's release from prison. Jan Kopecký and Lída Baarová were married in 1949 and formed an itinerant
troupe playing marionettes before they escaped to Austria. From there, Kopecký immigrated to Argentina, leaving Lída behind to
recuperate in the sanatorium of Dr. Lundwall.
In Austria, Lída attempted a comeback, but Anton Walbrook, who was persecuted during
the war for his sexual orientation, withdrew from a film where he was cast with her. To escape the resulting hate media campaign,
she left for Argentina, where she lived in extreme poverty. She decided to return to Italy.
Her husband stayed in Argentina and they were divorced in 1956. Back in Italy, she appeared in several films, including
Fellini's I Vitelloni (1953), where she played the wife of a rich merchant. In
1958, she moved to Salzburg, where she performed in a theater. In 1970, she married Kurt
Lundwall, a physician 20 years her senior. In the same year, Rainer Werner
Fassbinder gave her a part in The Bitter Tears of Petra von
Kant.
After the fall of the Berlin wall
In the 1990s Lída Baarová reappeared on the cultural scene of the Czech Republic. She published her autobiography and a movie,
Lída Baarová's Bittersweet Memories, appeared in 1995 and won an award at the 1996 Art Film Festival in Trenčianske Teplice, Slovakia.
Lída Baarová's headstone at Prague's Strašnice cemetery.
Lída Baarová suffered from Parkinson's disease and died in 2000 in
Salzburg, while living alone on the estate she inherited after the death of her second husband,
Dr. Lundwall. If she ever felt guilt about her past, she rigorously suppressed it. "There's no doubt that Goebbels was an interesting character," she observed in 1997, "a charming and intelligent man and a very good
storyteller. You could guarantee that he would keep a party going with his little asides and jokes.
Her ashes were interred in Prague's Strašnice cemetery, where she rests with her parents and sister Zorka Janů. Shortly after
her death, Bohumil Doležal (Události, November 8, 2000) commented on the incessant accusations, allegations, and media
hate campaigns that were part of Lída Baarova’s life since the end of the World War II and did not cease even after her death. He
wrote that
"This type of publicity is modeled on behavior of an animal pack of predators and has nothing in common with human
morality".
Filmography
Sladké hořkosti Lídy Baarové (Lída 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 (The Forgotten Ones, 1957)
Rapsodia de sangre (Ecstasy, 1957)
Todos somos necesarios (We All Matter, 1956)
Viaje de novios (Honeymoon, 1956)
La Mestiza (The Mestiza, 1956)
Miedo (The Fear, 1956)
Gli innocenti pagano (What Price Innocence? 1953)
Pietà per chi cade (Compassion, 1953)
I Vitelloni (The Loafers, 1953)
La vendetta di una pazza (Revenge of a Crazy Girl, 1952)
Carne inquieta (Restless, 1952)
Gli amanti di Ravello (The Lovers of Ravello, 1950)
La Bisarca (1950)
Vivere ancora (Still Alive, 1944)
L' Ippocampo (The Sea-Horse, 1944)
Il Cappello da prete (Priest's Hat, 1944)
Ti conosco, mascherina! (Masked Girl, Recognized!, 1943)
Grazia (The Charming Beauty, 1943)
Turbína (Turbine, 1941)
Paličova dcera (Arsonist's Daughter, 1941)
Za tichých nocí (In the Still of the Night, 1941)
Dívka v modrém (Girl in Blue, 1940)
Život je krásný (Life Is Beautiful, 1940)
Artur a Leontýna (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)
Maskovaná milenka (Masked Paramour, 1939)
Liebeslegende (Love Story, 1938)
Der Spieler - Roman eines Schwindlers (Gambler's Story, 1938)
Baarova in the 1937 German film Deutschland with Mathias Wieman.
Die Fledermaus (The Bat, 1937)
Die Kronzeugin (The Chief Witness, 1937)
Panenství (Virginity, 1937)
Lidé na kře (People on the Floating Ice, 1937)
Patrioten (Patriots, 1937)
Unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit (Private Show, 1937)
Komediantská princezna (Gypsy Princess, 1936)
Švadlenka (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 máš maminku (As Long as your Mother is Alive, 1934)
Zlatá Kateřina (Golden Kate, 1934)
Na růžích ustláno (Easy Life, 1934)
Pán na roztrhání (A Popular Guy, 1934)
Pokušení paní Antonie (Antonia's Temptation, 1934)
Její lékař (The Physician, 1933)
Sedmá velmoc (The Seventh Superpower, 1933)
Okénko (The Window, 1933)
Madla z cihelny (The Brickmaker's Daughter, 1933)
Jsem děvče s čertem v těle (Funky Girl, 1933)
Funebrák (The Undertaker, 1932)
Malostranští mušketýři (Prague's Musketeers, 1932)
Růžové kombiné (The Pink Slip, 1932)
Šenkýřka u divoké krásky (Waitress at the Wild Beauty's Bar, 1932)
Lelíček ve službách Sherlocka Holmese (Lelíček in Sherlock Holmes' Service, 1932)
Zapadlí vlastenci (Forgotten Patriots, 1932)
Kariéra Pavla Čamrdy (Pavel Čamrda's Career, 1931)
Obraceni Ferdyše Pištory (Conversion of Fred Pištora, 1931)
References
Lída Baarová, L. (1992). Života sladké hořkosti. Ostrava, Czech Republic: Sfinga.
Josef Frais, J. (1998). Trojhvězdí nesmrtelných. Prague, Czech Republic: Formát.
Motl, S. (2002). Prokleti Lidy Baarove. Praha: Rybka Publishers.
Škvorecký, J. (1983). Útěky: Vlastní životopis Lídy Baarové, jak jej vyprávela Josefu Škvoreckému. Toronto, Canada:
Sixty-Eight Publishers.
Vávra, O. (1996). Podivný život režiséra: Obrazy vzpominek. Praha: Prostor.
See also
Zorka Janů
Otakar Vávra
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