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Isa Miranda

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isa Miranda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​


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Born:
Jul 5, 1909 In Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Movie/TV Credits:
67
First Appeared:
In the movie The Haller Case 1933-01-01
Latest Project:
Movie Apocalisse di un terremoto 1982-09-06
Known For
Poster of Apocalisse di un terremoto
Poster of Before the Deluge
Poster of The Love of the Maharaja
Poster of The Haller Case
Filmography
Movie Apocalisse di un terremoto madre di Maria 1982-09-06
Series Camilla Madre di Camilla 1976-04-18
Movie The Night Porter Countess Stein 1974-04-03
Movie Bambina Lorè 1974-09-17
Series Shirley's World Unknown 1972-04-07
Movie We'll Call Him Andrea Teacher 1972-10-14
Movie Marta Elena 1971-04-10
Movie A Bay of Blood Countess Federica Donati 1971-09-08
Movie Dorian Gray Mrs. Patricia Ruxton 1970-04-24
Movie Red Hot Shot Tenutaria bordello 1970-03-31
Movie Love, I Think Sue's Mother 1970-08-11
Movie Roy Colt and Winchester Jack Mamma Lizzy 1970-08-13
Movie La donna a una dimensione Elena 1969-03-11
Movie He and She Mother 1969-09-28
Movie Dear Caroline La duchesse de Bussez 1968-03-22
Movie The Shoes of the Fisherman The Marchesa 1968-11-14
Movie Hell Is Empty Isa Grant 1967-12-20
Movie The Mayfly and the Frog 1966-12-21
Movie A Young World Une sage-femme 1966-03-25
Movie Dog Eat Dog! Madame Benoit 1964-06-25
Movie The Gallant Musketeer Catherine de Medicis 1964-02-21
Movie Do You Know This Voice? Rosa Marotta 1964-12-01
Movie The Yellow Rolls-Royce Duchesse d'Angoulême 1964-12-31
Series A Little Big Business 1963-08-08
Movie Corruption Mrs. Mattioli 1963-11-22
Movie The Empty Canvas Cecilia's Mother 1963-12-04
Series The Avengers Unknown 1961-01-07
Series Maigret Unknown 1960-10-31
Movie The Great Deception la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie 1959-09-23
Movie The Guilty Lucia Rossello 1957-03-01
Movie The Dollars Are Coming! Caterina Marchetti 1957-03-29
Movie A Kiss for a Killer Betty Farnwell 1957-11-27
Movie Summertime Signora Fiorini 1955-06-21
Movie Abandoned Contessa Luisa 1955-09-07
Movie Rommel's Treasure Mrs. Fischer 1955-12-22
Movie The Secret of Helene Marimon 1954-05-13
Movie Before the Deluge Françoise Boussard 1954-02-26
Movie Rasputin La tsarine Alexandra 1954-07-19
Movie We, the Women Isa (segment "Isa Miranda") 1953-10-27
Movie The Seven Deadly Sins Mrs. Alvaro (segment "Avarice and Anger") 1952-03-27
Movie The Secret Conclave Countess 1952-09-17
Movie Position Wanted Angela Leonardi 1951-11-03
Movie La Ronde Charlotte 1950-09-27
Movie Pact with the Devil Marta Larocca 1950-01-11
Movie The Walls of Malapaga Marta Manfredini 1949-09-19
Movie Adventure Starts Tomorrow Clarence Holbane 1948-02-04
Movie Leckerbissen Self - film scenes (archive footage) 1948-06-05
Movie Lo sbaglio di essere vivo Maria 1945-12-05
Movie La carne e l'anima 1945-01-11
Movie Zazà Zazà 1944-03-08
Movie Document Z-3 Sandra Morini 1943-04-12
Movie Malombra Marina di Malombra 1942-12-17
Movie È caduta una donna Dina 1941-12-17
Movie Adventure in Diamonds Felice Falcon 1940-03-08
Movie Senza cielo Regina 1940-11-24
Movie Hotel Imperial Anna Warschawska 1939-05-11
Movie Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal Velia, a Roman woman 1937-08-04
Movie The Man from Nowhere Louise Paleari 1937-02-18
Movie The Lie of Nina Petrovna Nina Petrovna 1937-11-04
Movie The Love of the Maharaja Mira Salviati 1936-04-14
Movie Du bist mein Glück Mary Hofer & Bianca Monti 1936-10-06
Movie Come le foglie Nennele 1935-02-01
Movie Destiny Unknown Maria Brunetti 1935-11-13
Movie Tenebre Vera 1934-01-01
Movie Creature della notte Una gigolette 1934-01-01
Movie Everybody's Woman Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot 1934-11-29
Movie The Haller Case La donna cattiva 1933-01-01