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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Acted in
Apocalisse di un terremoto
1982
as madre di Maria
Camilla
1976
as Madre di Camilla
Bambina
1974
as Lorè
The Night Porter
1974
as Countess Stein
We'll Call Him Andrea
1972
as Teacher
Shirley's World
1972
A Bay of Blood
1971
as Countess Federica Donati
Marta
1971
as Elena
Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
1970
as Mamma Lizzy
Love, I Think
1970
as Sue's Mother
Dorian Gray
1970
as Mrs. Patricia Ruxton
Red Hot Shot
1970
as Tenutaria bordello
He and She
1969
as Mother
La donna a una dimensione
1969
as Elena
The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968
as The Marchesa
Dear Caroline
1968
as La duchesse de Bussez
Hell Is Empty
1967
as Isa Grant
The Mayfly and the Frog
1966
A Young World
1966
as Une sage-femme
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964
as Duchesse d'Angoulême
Do You Know This Voice?
1964
as Rosa Marotta
Dog Eat Dog!
1964
as Madame Benoit
The Gallant Musketeer
1964
as Catherine de Medicis
Una storia di notte
1964
as Moglie di Peppino
The Empty Canvas
1963
as Cecilia's Mother
Corruption
1963
as Mrs. Mattioli
A Little Big Business
1963
The Avengers
1961
as Damita Syn
Maigret
1960
The Great Deception
1959
as la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie
A Kiss for a Killer
1957
as Betty Farnwell
The Dollars Are Coming!
1957
as Caterina Marchetti
The Guilty
1957
as Lucia Rossello
I pinguini ci guardano
1956
Rommel's Treasure
1955
as Mrs. Fischer
Abandoned
1955
as Contessa Luisa
Summertime
1955
as Signora Fiorini
Rasputin
1954
as La tsarine Alexandra
The Secret of Helene Marimon
1954
Before the Deluge
1954
as Françoise Boussard
We, the Women
1953
as Isa (segment "Isa Miranda")
The Secret Conclave
1952
as Countess
The Seven Deadly Sins
1952
as Mrs. Alvaro (segment "Avarice and Anger")
Position Wanted
1951
as Angela Leonardi
La Ronde
1950
as Charlotte
Pact with the Devil
1950
as Marta Larocca
The Walls of Malapaga
1949
as Marta Manfredini
Leckerbissen
1948
as Self - film scenes (archive footage)
Adventure Starts Tomorrow
1948
as Clarence Holbane
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
1945
as Maria
La carne e l'anima
1945
Zazà
1944
as Zazà
Document Z-3
1943
as Sandra Morini
Malombra
1942
as Marina di Malombra
È caduta una donna
1941
as Dina
Senza cielo
1940
as Regina
Adventure in Diamonds
1940
as Felice Falcon
Hotel Imperial
1939
as Anna Warschawska
The Lie of Nina Petrovna
1937
as Nina Petrovna
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
1937
as Velia, a Roman woman
The Man from Nowhere
1937
as Louise Paleari
Du bist mein Glück
1936
as Mary Hofer & Bianca Monti
The Love of the Maharaja
1936
as Mira Salviati
Destiny Unknown
1935
as Maria Brunetti
Come le foglie
1935
as Nennele
Everybody's Woman
1934
as Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot
Tenebre
1934
as Vera
Creature della notte
1934
as Una gigolette
The Haller Case
1933
as La donna cattiva