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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isa Miranda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movies (43)
Apocalisse di un terremoto
as madre di Maria
1982
Bambina
as Lorè
1974
The Night Porter
as Countess Stein
1974
We'll Call Him Andrea
as Teacher
1972
A Bay of Blood
as Countess Federica Donati
1971
Marta
as Elena
1971
Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
as Mamma Lizzy
1970
Love, I Think
as Sue's Mother
1970
Dorian Gray
as Mrs. Patricia Ruxton
1970
Red Hot Shot
as Tenutaria bordello
1970
He and She
as Mother
1969
La donna a una dimensione
as Elena
1969
The Shoes of the Fisherman
as The Marchesa
1968
Dear Caroline
as La duchesse de Bussez
1968
Hell Is Empty
as Isa Grant
1967
The Mayfly and the Frog
1966
A Young World
as Une sage-femme
1966
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
as Duchesse d'Angoulême
1964
Do You Know This Voice?
as Rosa Marotta
1964
Dog Eat Dog!
as Madame Benoit
1964
The Gallant Musketeer
as Catherine de Medicis
1964
Una storia di notte
as Moglie di Peppino
1964
The Empty Canvas
as Cecilia's Mother
1963
Corruption
as Mrs. Mattioli
1963
The Great Deception
as la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie
1959
A Kiss for a Killer
as Betty Farnwell
1957
The Dollars Are Coming!
as Caterina Marchetti
1957
The Guilty
as Lucia Rossello
1957
I pinguini ci guardano
1956
Rommel's Treasure
as Mrs. Fischer
1955
Abandoned
as Contessa Luisa
1955
Summertime
as Signora Fiorini
1955
Rasputin
as La tsarine Alexandra
1954
The Secret of Helene Marimon
as Hélène Marimon
1954
Before the Deluge
as Françoise Boussard
1954
We, the Women
as Isa (segment "Isa Miranda")
1953
The Secret Conclave
as Countess
1952
The Seven Deadly Sins
as Mrs. Alvaro (segment "L'Avarice et La Colère")
1952
Position Wanted
as Angela Leonardi
1951
La Ronde
as Charlotte
1950
Pact with the Devil
as Marta Larocca
1950
The Walls of Malapaga
as Marta Manfredini
1949
Leckerbissen
as Self - film scenes (archive footage)
1948
