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Acting
Birthday:
July 5, 1909
Place of Birth:
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Apocalisse di un terremoto | madre di Maria |
| 1974 | The Night Porter | Countess Stein |
| 1974 | Bambina | Lorè |
| 1972 | We'll Call Him Andrea | Teacher |
| 1971 | Marta | Elena |
| 1971 | A Bay of Blood | Countess Federica Donati |
| 1970 | Dorian Gray | Mrs. Patricia Ruxton |
| 1970 | Love, I Think | Sue's Mother |
| 1970 | Red Hot Shot | Tenutaria bordello |
| 1970 | Roy Colt and Winchester Jack | Mamma Lizzy |
| 1969 | He and She | Mother |
| 1969 | La donna a una dimensione | Elena |
| 1968 | Dear Caroline | La duchesse de Bussez |
| 1968 | The Shoes of the Fisherman | The Marchesa |
| 1967 | Hell Is Empty | Isa Grant |
| 1966 | A Young World | Une sage-femme |
| 1966 | The Mayfly and the Frog | |
| 1964 | Dog Eat Dog! | Madame Benoit |
| 1964 | The Yellow Rolls-Royce | Duchesse d'Angoulême |
| 1964 | Do You Know This Voice? | Rosa Marotta |
| 1964 | Una storia di notte | Moglie di Peppino |
| 1964 | The Gallant Musketeer | Catherine de Medicis |
| 1963 | The Empty Canvas | Cecilia's Mother |
| 1963 | Corruption | Mrs. Mattioli |
| 1959 | The Great Deception | la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie |
| 1957 | The Dollars Are Coming! | Caterina Marchetti |
| 1957 | A Kiss for a Killer | Betty Farnwell |
| 1957 | The Guilty | Lucia Rossello |
| 1956 | I pinguini ci guardano | |
| 1955 | Summertime | Signora Fiorini |
| 1955 | Abandoned | Contessa Luisa |
| 1955 | Rommel's Treasure | Mrs. Fischer |
| 1954 | The Secret of Helene Marimon | Hélène Marimon |
| 1954 | Before the Deluge | Françoise Boussard |
| 1954 | Rasputin | La tsarine Alexandra |
| 1953 | We, the Women | Isa (segment "Isa Miranda") |
| 1952 | The Seven Deadly Sins | Mrs. Alvaro (segment "Avarice and Anger") |
| 1952 | The Secret Conclave | Countess |
| 1951 | Position Wanted | Angela Leonardi |
| 1950 | Pact with the Devil | Marta Larocca |
| 1950 | La Ronde | Charlotte |
| 1949 | The Walls of Malapaga | Marta Manfredini |
| 1948 | Adventure Starts Tomorrow | Clarence Holbane |
| 1948 | Leckerbissen | Self - film scenes (archive footage) |
| 1945 | Lo sbaglio di essere vivo | Maria |
| 1945 | La carne e l'anima | |
| 1944 | Zazà | Zazà |
| 1943 | Document Z-3 | Sandra Morini |
| 1942 | Malombra | Marina di Malombra |
| 1941 | È caduta una donna | Dina |
| 1940 | Adventure in Diamonds | Felice Falcon |
| 1940 | Senza cielo | Regina |
| 1939 | Hotel Imperial | Anna Warschawska |
| 1937 | Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal | Velia, a Roman woman |
| 1937 | The Man from Nowhere | Louise Paleari |
| 1937 | The Lie of Nina Petrovna | Nina Petrovna |
| 1936 | The Love of the Maharaja | Mira Salviati |
| 1936 | Du bist mein Glück | Mary Hofer & Bianca Monti |
| 1935 | Come le foglie | Nennele |
| 1935 | Destiny Unknown | Maria Brunetti |
| 1934 | Everybody's Woman | Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot |
| 1934 | Tenebre | Vera |
| 1934 | Creature della notte | Una gigolette |
| 1933 | The Haller Case | La donna cattiva |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Camilla | Madre di Camilla |
| 1972 | Shirley's World | |
| 1963 | A Little Big Business | |
| 1961 | The Avengers | Damita Syn |
| 1960 | Maigret |