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