Isa Miranda
Acting • Born 1909-07-05 – Died 1982-07-08
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.
Filmography
71 credits
Marta
Movie • 1971
Elena
A Bay of Blood
Movie • 1971
Countess Federica Donati
The Night Porter
Movie • 1974
Countess Stein
Dog Eat Dog!
Movie • 1964
Madame Benoit
The Dollars Are Coming!
Movie • 1957
Caterina Marchetti
Dorian Gray
Movie • 1970
Mrs. Patricia Ruxton
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Movie • 1964
Duchesse d'Angoulême
The Walls of Malapaga
Movie • 1949
Marta Manfredini
Bambina
Movie • 1974
Lorè
Summertime
Movie • 1955
Signora Fiorini
We, the Women
Movie • 1953
Isa (segment "Isa Miranda")
The Great Deception
Movie • 1959
la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie
Position Wanted
Movie • 1951
Angela Leonardi
The Empty Canvas
Movie • 1963
Cecilia's Mother
Everybody's Woman
Movie • 1934
Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot
Corruption
Movie • 1963
Mrs. Mattioli
A Kiss for a Killer
Movie • 1957
Betty Farnwell
Adventure in Diamonds
Movie • 1940
Felice Falcon
Zazà
Movie • 1944
Zazà
Abandoned
Movie • 1955
Contessa Luisa
Senza cielo
Movie • 1940
Regina
Malombra
Movie • 1942
Marina di Malombra
Hotel Imperial
Movie • 1939
Anna Warschawska
Do You Know This Voice?
Movie • 1964
Rosa Marotta
He and She
Movie • 1969
Mother
Tenebre
Movie • 1934
Vera
Love, I Think
Movie • 1970
Sue's Mother
The Love of the Maharaja
Movie • 1936
Mira Salviati
The Seven Deadly Sins
Movie • 1952
Mrs. Alvaro (segment "L'Avarice et La Colère")
Du bist mein Glück
Movie • 1936
Mary Hofer & Bianca Monti
Dear Caroline
Movie • 1968
La duchesse de Bussez
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
Movie • 1945
Maria
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
Movie • 1937
Velia, a Roman woman
The Guilty
Movie • 1957
Lucia Rossello
The Secret of Helene Marimon
Movie • 1954
Hélène Marimon
Rommel's Treasure
Movie • 1955
Mrs. Fischer
È caduta una donna
Movie • 1941
Dina
The Man from Nowhere
Movie • 1937
Louise Paleari
Creature della notte
Movie • 1934
Una gigolette
Like the Leaves
Movie • 1935
Nennele
The Haller Case
Movie • 1933
La donna cattiva
The Secret Conclave
Movie • 1952
Countess
Before the Deluge
Movie • 1954
Françoise Boussard
Una storia di notte
Movie • 1964
Moglie di Peppino
Red Hot Shot
Movie • 1970
Tenutaria bordello
We'll Call Him Andrea
Movie • 1972
Teacher
Adventure Starts Tomorrow
Movie • 1948
Clarence Holbane
Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
Movie • 1970
Mamma Lizzy
La carne e l'anima
Movie • 1945
Katrin called 'Stella'
Pact with the Devil
Movie • 1950
Marta Larocca
La Ronde
Movie • 1950
Charlotte
Document Z-3
Movie • 1943
Sandra Morini
La donna a una dimensione
Movie • 1969
Elena
Leckerbissen
Movie • 1948
Self - film scenes (archive footage)
A Young World
Movie • 1966
Une sage-femme
Hell Is Empty
Movie • 1967
Isa Grant
The Lie of Nina Petrovna
Movie • 1937
Nina Petrovna
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Movie • 1968
The Marchesa
Destiny Unknown
Movie • 1935
Maria Brunetti
The Mayfly and the Frog
Movie • 1966
Apocalisse di un terremoto
Movie • 1982
madre di Maria
The Gallant Musketeer
Movie • 1964
Catherine de Medicis
Rasputin
Movie • 1954
La tsarine Alexandra
I pinguini ci guardano
Movie • 1956
The Avengers
TV • 1961
Damita Syn
Shirley's World
TV • 1972
Maigret
TV • 1960
A Little Big Business
TV • 1963
Camilla
TV • 1976
Madre di Camilla
The Younger Generation
TV • 1961
Mrs Grigoris
Sergeant Cork
TV • 1963
Magda Brandel