Isa Miranda
Born
July 5, 1909
Died
July 8, 1982 (73 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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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Apocalisse di un terremoto
madre di Maria
1982

Camilla
Madre di Camilla · (4 episodes)
1976

Bambina
Lorè
1974

The Night Porter
Countess Stein
1974

We'll Call Him Andrea
Teacher
1972

Shirley's World
(1 episode)
1972

A Bay of Blood
Countess Federica Donati
1971

Marta
Elena
1971

Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
Mamma Lizzy
1970

Love, I Think
Sue's Mother
1970

Dorian Gray
Mrs. Patricia Ruxton
1970

Red Hot Shot
Tenutaria bordello
1970

He and She
Mother
1969

La donna a una dimensione
Elena
1969

The Shoes of the Fisherman
The Marchesa
1968

Dear Caroline
La duchesse de Bussez
1968

Hell Is Empty
Isa Grant
1967
The Mayfly and the Frog
1966

A Young World
Une sage-femme
1966

The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Duchesse d'Angoulême
1964

Do You Know This Voice?
Rosa Marotta
1964

Dog Eat Dog!
Madame Benoit
1964

The Gallant Musketeer
Catherine de Medicis
1964

Una storia di notte
Moglie di Peppino
1964

The Empty Canvas
Cecilia's Mother
1963

Corruption
Mrs. Mattioli
1963

A Little Big Business
(15 episodes)
1963

The Avengers
Damita Syn · (1 episode)
1961

Maigret
(1 episode)
1960

The Great Deception
la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie
1959

A Kiss for a Killer
Betty Farnwell
1957

The Dollars Are Coming!
Caterina Marchetti
1957

The Guilty
Lucia Rossello
1957

I pinguini ci guardano
1956

Rommel's Treasure
Mrs. Fischer
1955

Abandoned
Contessa Luisa
1955

Summertime
Signora Fiorini
1955

Rasputin
La tsarine Alexandra
1954

The Secret of Helene Marimon
Hélène Marimon
1954

Before the Deluge
Françoise Boussard
1954

We, the Women
Isa (segment "Isa Miranda")
1953

The Secret Conclave
Countess
1952

The Seven Deadly Sins
Mrs. Alvaro (segment "Avarice and Anger")
1952

Position Wanted
Angela Leonardi
1951

La Ronde
Charlotte
1950
Pact with the Devil
Marta Larocca
1950

The Walls of Malapaga
Marta Manfredini
1949

Leckerbissen
Self - film scenes (archive footage)
1948

Adventure Starts Tomorrow
Clarence Holbane
1948

Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
Maria
1945

La carne e l'anima
1945

Zazà
Zazà
1944

Document Z-3
Sandra Morini
1943

Malombra
Marina di Malombra
1942

È caduta una donna
Dina
1941

Senza cielo
Regina
1940

Adventure in Diamonds
Felice Falcon
1940

Hotel Imperial
Anna Warschawska
1939

The Lie of Nina Petrovna
Nina Petrovna
1937

Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
Velia, a Roman woman
1937

The Man from Nowhere
Louise Paleari
1937

Du bist mein Glück
Mary Hofer & Bianca Monti
1936

The Love of the Maharaja
Mira Salviati
1936

Destiny Unknown
Maria Brunetti
1935

Come le foglie
Nennele
1935

Everybody's Woman
Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot
1934

Tenebre
Vera
1934
Creature della notte
Una gigolette
1934
The Haller Case
La donna cattiva
1933