Isa Miranda
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Isa Miranda (5 July 1909 – 8 July 1982) was an Italian actress with an international film career.
She worked as a typist whilst attending the drama academy in Milan and training as a stage actress. She went on to play bit parts in Italian films in Rome. Success came with Max Ophüls' film La Signora di tutti (Everybody's Woman) (1934) in which she played Gaby Doriot, a famous film star and fascinating adventuress with whom men cannot help falling in love. Having brought several of them to their ruin, she slits her wrists. This was perhaps Miranda's finest screen performance and it brought in its wake several film offers and a Hollywood contract with Paramount Pictures. There, billed as the "Italian Marlene Dietrich", she played several femme fatale roles in such films as Hotel Imperial (1939) and Adventure in Diamonds (1940).
She returned to Italy soon after the outbreak of World War II and continued to act on the stage and to make films. In 1949, she starred in René Clément's The Walls of Malapaga, which won an Academy Award for the most outstanding foreign language film of 1950, and for Miranda, the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Another success of that period was La Ronde (1950), also directed by Ophüls.
Her career took her to France, Germany and England, where she frequently appeared in TV films, including The Avengers. Other notable film appearances include Siamo donne (1953), a portmanteau film where Miranda shares the screen with three other screen legends, Anna Magnani, Alida Valli and Ingrid Bergman, Summertime (1955), Gli Sbandati (1955), La Noia (The Empty Canvas, 1963), The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964), The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) and Liliana Cavani's Il portiere di notte (The Night Porter, 1974).
Miranda was married to the Italian director and producer Alfredo Guarini until his death in 1981.
She died in Rome in 1982.
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Fotos
Películas (66)
Apocalisse di un terremoto
1982 · madre di Maria
Bambina
1974 · Lorè
The Night Porter
1974 · Countess Stein
We'll Call Him Andrea
1972 · Teacher
A Bay of Blood
1971 · Countess Federica Donati
Marta
1971 · Elena
Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
1970 · Mamma Lizzy
Love, I Think
1970 · Sue's Mother
Dorian Gray
1970 · Mrs. Patricia Ruxton
Red Hot Shot
1970 · Tenutaria bordello
He and She
1969 · Mother
La donna a una dimensione
1969 · Elena
The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968 · The Marchesa
Dear Caroline
1968 · La duchesse de Bussez
Hell Is Empty
1967 · Isa Grant
The Mayfly and the Frog
1966
A Young World
1966 · Une sage-femme
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964 · Duchesse d'Angoulême
Do You Know This Voice?
1964 · Rosa Marotta
Dog Eat Dog!
1964 · Madame Benoit
The Gallant Musketeer
1964 · Catherine de Medicis
Una storia di notte
1964 · Moglie di Peppino
The Empty Canvas
1963 · Cecilia's Mother
Corruption
1963 · Mrs. Mattioli
The Great Deception
1959 · la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie
A Kiss for a Killer
1957 · Betty Farnwell
The Dollars Are Coming!
1957 · Caterina Marchetti
The Guilty
1957 · Lucia Rossello
I pinguini ci guardano
1956
Rommel's Treasure
1955 · Mrs. Fischer
Abandoned
1955 · Contessa Luisa
Summertime
1955 · Signora Fiorini
Rasputin
1954 · La tsarine Alexandra
The Secret of Helene Marimon
1954 · Hélène Marimon
Before the Deluge
1954 · Françoise Boussard
We, the Women
1953 · Isa (segment "Isa Miranda")
The Secret Conclave
1952 · Countess
The Seven Deadly Sins
1952 · Mrs. Alvaro (segment "L'Avarice et La Colère")
Position Wanted
1951 · Angela Leonardi
La Ronde
1950 · Charlotte
Pact with the Devil
1950 · Marta Larocca
The Walls of Malapaga
1949 · Marta Manfredini
Leckerbissen
1948 · Self - film scenes (archive footage)
Adventure Starts Tomorrow
1948 · Clarence Holbane
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
1945 · Maria
La carne e l'anima
1945 · Katrin called 'Stella'
Zazà
1944 · Zazà
Document Z-3
1943 · Sandra Morini
Malombra
1942 · Marina di Malombra
È caduta una donna
1941 · Dina
Senza cielo
1940 · Regina
Adventure in Diamonds
1940 · Felice Falcon
Hotel Imperial
1939 · Anna Warschawska
The Lie of Nina Petrovna
1937 · Nina Petrovna
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
1937 · Velia, a Roman woman
The Man from Nowhere
1937 · Louise Paleari
Thou Art My Joy
1936 · Mary Hofer & Bianca Monti
Una donna tra due mondi
1936 · Mira Salviati
The Love of the Maharaja
1936 · Mira Salviati
Destiny Unknown
1935 · Maria Brunetti
Like the Leaves
1935 · Nennele
Everybody's Woman
1934 · Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot
Tenebre
1934 · Vera
Creature della notte
1934 · Una gigolette
The Haller Case
1933 · La donna cattiva
Il diario di una donna amata
· Marie Bashkirtseff
