Zorka Janů (born Zora Babková) (Å tÄ›chovice, 9 July 1921 â€"
Prague, 24 March 1946), was a Czech film actress and the younger
sister of actress LÃda Baarová.When she was 12 years old, she
appeared in the movie Madla z cihelny (Brickmaker's daughter, 1933)
alongside her sister who played the principal role. She studied drama
at the Prague's Conservatory.The year after she acted in the 1938 film
Cech panen kutnohorských (The Virgins' Club), she got her first big
role in the František Čáp and Václav Krška's movie Fiery Summer
(Ohnivé léto), about a love triangle between Clare (Janů), who
loves a man named Å imon (Svatopluk Benes), who in turn loves Rose
(LÃda Baarová). Clare attempts suicide by jumping into the river.
Two young men in love with her throw themselves into the torrent to
save her, but one of them drowns. During the shooting of Fiery Summer,
Zorka Janů fell in love with the writer and poet František
KožÃk.In the 1940s Zorka Janů appeared in seven movies, among them
Baron Münchhausen and Rubens’ Caper. She played a leading role in
the movie ÄŒekanky (Ladies in Waiting, 1940) about an aging count who
forbids his female staff to marry. Her last movie appearance was as
Helen in Jiřà SlavÃÄ ek’s Boys and the River (1944).
Prague, 24 March 1946), was a Czech film actress and the younger
sister of actress LÃda Baarová.When she was 12 years old, she
appeared in the movie Madla z cihelny (Brickmaker's daughter, 1933)
alongside her sister who played the principal role. She studied drama
at the Prague's Conservatory.The year after she acted in the 1938 film
Cech panen kutnohorských (The Virgins' Club), she got her first big
role in the František Čáp and Václav Krška's movie Fiery Summer
(Ohnivé léto), about a love triangle between Clare (Janů), who
loves a man named Å imon (Svatopluk Benes), who in turn loves Rose
(LÃda Baarová). Clare attempts suicide by jumping into the river.
Two young men in love with her throw themselves into the torrent to
save her, but one of them drowns. During the shooting of Fiery Summer,
Zorka Janů fell in love with the writer and poet František
KožÃk.In the 1940s Zorka Janů appeared in seven movies, among them
Baron Münchhausen and Rubens’ Caper. She played a leading role in
the movie ÄŒekanky (Ladies in Waiting, 1940) about an aging count who
forbids his female staff to marry. Her last movie appearance was as
Helen in Jiřà SlavÃÄ ek’s Boys and the River (1944).
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