Titien Sumarni
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Sumarni in 1954
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| Born |
28 December 1932 Surabaya, Dutch East Indies |
| Died | 15 May 1966 (aged 33) Bandung, West Java, Indonesia |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1951–1956 |
Raden Ajeng Titien Sumarni (28 December 1932 – 15 May 1966) was an Indonesian film actress active in the 1950s. Born in Surabaya, she moved to Tasikmalaya as a child and developed an interest in stage acting, trained by her uncle and future husband Mustari, later acting for republican troops during the Indonesian National Revolution. Sumarni began acting in film in 1951, making her debut with Seruni Laju. Over her five-year career Sumarni acted in thirty films, established her own film production company, and became one of the most popular Indonesian actresses of her time. Following her final film, Djandjiku (1956), Sumarni fell out of the spotlight, eventually dying in poverty.
Sumarni was born on 28 December 1932 in Surabaya, Dutch East Indies. She was of mixed Javanese–Sundanese descent. Her father, an assistant wedana in Surabaya, died when she was three, and when Sumarni was aged six she moved to her mother's town in Tasikmalaya.
While in junior high school in Bandung, at age fifteen, Sumarni began studying acting under her uncle R. Mustari. He later became her husband; according to the author Rd. Lingga Wisjnu, this was taken as revenge against her lover, an Indonesian military officer who cheated on her with Mustari's wife. After marriage, Sumarni dropped out of school and began a career as a stage actress, entertaining troops fighting in the Indonesian National Revolution until she moved with her husband to Jakarta.
Sumarni became interested in the Indonesian film industry in 1950, after seeing Nana Mayo in Inspektur Rachman. With her husband's permission, she entered the industry in 1951 through an acquaintance, Harun Al-Rasyid, who was an employee at the Golden Arrow Film Company. Al-Rasyid in turn introduced her to Rd Ariffien, a director. Sumarni soon made her feature film debut in Golden Arrow's Seruni Laju; this was followed by a role in Kino Drama Atelier's Gadis Olahraga (1951), though as the films' production schedules coincided Sumarni had contract difficulties.
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