About Netty Herawaty
Netty Herawaty (4 April 1930 – 6 February 1989) was an Indonesian actress who made more than fifty films between 1949 and 1986. She was the part of Classical Indonesian Cinema. Born in Surabaya, as a teenager Herawaty toured Java with a number of stage troupes during the Japanese occupation and Indonesian National Revolution. In 1949, she made her feature film debut in Fred Young's Saputangan. After two years of collaborating with Young, appearing in a total of eight films for his Bintang Surabaja Film Corporation, Herawaty migrated to Djamaluddin Malik's Persari, where she soon became one of the company's most popular stars and appeared in such films as Rodrigo de Villa (1952) and Lewat Djam Malam (1955). When Persari was shut down, Herawaty returned to the theatre, spending most of the 1960s away from Indonesia's struggling film industry. She returned to screen in the 1970s, appearing in supporting roles in more than thirty films before her death. This included the role of Norma, the fiancée of a returned guerrilla, in the Perfini–Persari collaboration Lewat Djam Malam, which won a Citra Award for Best Film at the 1955 Indonesian Film Festival. According to her youngest daughter, Erlina (born 1960), Herawaty did not complain of anything but felt difficulty defecating in the morning which then caused her physical condition to decline and she experienced shortness of breath.
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