If it can be said about someone that all the devils were with him, it is definitely the actress Ljuba Hermanová. She loved men and their company. Her lovers had to be handsome and younger. She married four times and did not take life too seriously.
A popular film and theater actress, but also a great chansonist and cabaret singer, Ljuba Hermanová was a star of the silver screen who knew how to win not only fans, but also the heart of every man she pointed at. But she didn’t take them too seriously, she wanted to have fun, which she definitely succeeded in doing.
When Ljuba got going, it was worth it. She was vivacious, lively, full of joy in life and, on top of that, incredibly gifted in movement. On stage, she made stars, somersaults, and raising her leg to her head was no problem for her.
But what she had a problem with was her age. She took five years. Her colleague Ljuba Skořepová revealed to her that she was not born in 1913, as stated in her passport, but five years earlier. She ran to the authorities to change her data. The reason was her passion for younger men, to whom she did not want to appear so old. However, Hermanová never confirmed the slander from Skořepová, not even in her memoirs.
She was volatile in her feelings and in work matters
But that doesn’t change the fact that Ljuba was a tomboy who didn’t lose her sex appeal even as she got older. The older she got, the younger her lovers were. She was also flighty in the work plane. She constantly changed engagements, she could not stay in one place for long. She enjoyed fame for the longest time in the Osvobozený divadlo.
“I think Werich liked me, but I liked the gentler and more romantic Voskovec. But I dated both of them. Later I learned that they said it anyway in the dressing room,” she admitted in her autobiography “…and what I haven’t said yet”.
She formed an inseparable pair with another First Republic star, Adina Mandlová. They even lived together for a while. So it’s no wonder that they hosted exuberant parties full of alcohol, cocaine and men.
She lived an exuberant way of life and did not take anything seriously
“One day in the middle of the night, Ljuba ran out to the Šroubek hotel to buy something to cheer her up so she could bond better with the girls. She was wearing only a fur coat and nothing else,” recalled her friend, musician Vladimír Truc, about the fun-filled period.
At that time it was courage, she could lose everything. But she wasn’t worried about herself, money or her career. She lived by the motto, somehow it was, somehow it will be. She said she never even felt like a real actress, even though she made around thirteen feature films.
She was married four times. The first time she married the boxing champion of the republic Eduard Hrabák, the second time after the war she married the elegant Miroslav Lorenc, who tried to make her a lady, and the third time it was the successful architect Jiří Dvořák. The last time she got married was in her 60s, and her groom, Karl Šmíd, was in his late thirties. Evil voices said he looked like her son.
2023-04-24 22:07:39
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