Isa Miranda
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1909-07-05
Day of Death
1982-07-08 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Isa Miranda
Biography
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.
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Known For
Acting
(1982)
Apocalisse di un terremoto
as madre di Maria
(1974)
Bambina
as Lorè
(1974)
The Night Porter
as Countess Stein
(1972)
We'll Call Him Andrea
as Teacher
(1971)
A Bay of Blood
as Countess Federica Donati
(1971)
Marta
as Elena
(1970)
Dorian Gray
as Mrs. Patricia Ruxton
(1970)
Red Hot Shot
as Tenutaria bordello
(1970)
Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
as Mamma Lizzy
(1970)
Love, I Think
as Sue's Mother
(1969)
He and She
as Mother
(1969)
La donna a una dimensione
as Elena
(1968)
The Shoes of the Fisherman
as The Marchesa
(1968)
Dear Caroline
as La duchesse de Bussez
(1967)
Hell Is Empty
as Isa Grant
(1966)
A Young World
as Une sage-femme
(1966)
(1964)
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
as Duchesse d'Angoulême
(1964)
Dog Eat Dog!
as Madame Benoit
(1964)
The Gallant Musketeer
as Catherine de Medicis
(1964)
Do You Know This Voice?
as Rosa Marotta
(1964)
Una storia di notte
as Moglie di Peppino
(1963)
Corruption
as Mrs. Mattioli
(1963)
The Empty Canvas
as Cecilia's Mother
(1959)
The Great Deception
as la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie
(1957)
A Kiss for a Killer
as Betty Farnwell
(1957)
The Dollars Are Coming!
as Caterina Marchetti
(1957)
The Guilty
as Lucia Rossello
(1956)
(1955)
Summertime
as Signora Fiorini
(1955)
Abandoned
as Contessa Luisa
(1955)
Rommel's Treasure
as Mrs. Fischer
(1954)
Before the Deluge
as Françoise Boussard
(1954)
Rasputin
as La tsarine Alexandra
(1954)
The Secret of Helene Marimon
as Hélène Marimon
(1953)
We, the Women
as Isa (segment "Isa Miranda")
(1952)
The Secret Conclave
as Countess
(1952)
The Seven Deadly Sins
as Mrs. Alvaro (segment "Avarice and Anger")
(1951)
Position Wanted
as Angela Leonardi
(1950)
La Ronde
as Charlotte
(1950)
Pact with the Devil
as Marta Larocca
(1949)
The Walls of Malapaga
as Marta Manfredini
(1948)
Leckerbissen
as Self - film scenes (archive footage)
(1948)
Adventure Starts Tomorrow
as Clarence Holbane
(1945)
(1945)
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
as Maria
(1944)
Zazà
as Zazà
(1943)
Document Z-3
as Sandra Morini
(1942)
Malombra
as Marina di Malombra
(1941)
È caduta una donna
as Dina
(1940)
Adventure in Diamonds
as Felice Falcon
(1940)
Senza cielo
as Regina
(1939)
Hotel Imperial
as Anna Warschawska
(1937)
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
as Velia, a Roman woman
(1937)
The Man from Nowhere
as Louise Paleari
(1937)
The Lie of Nina Petrovna
as Nina Petrovna
(1936)
The Love of the Maharaja
as Mira Salviati
(1936)
Du bist mein Glück
as Mary Hofer & Bianca Monti
(1935)
Destiny Unknown
as Maria Brunetti
(1935)
Come le foglie
as Nennele
(1934)
Everybody's Woman
as Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot
(1934)
Creature della notte
as Una gigolette
(1934)
Tenebre
as Vera
(1933)
The Haller Case
as La donna cattiva