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Isa Miranda
Actor

Isa Miranda

5 Jul 1909Born
8 Jul 1982Died
73Age at death
73Credits

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.

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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

  1. TBAIl diario di una donna amataFilm: Marie Bashkirtseff
  2. 1982Apocalisse di un terremotoFilm: madre di Maria
  3. 1976CamillaSeries: Madre di Camilla (4 episodes)
  4. 1974BambinaFilm: Lorè
  5. 1974The Night PorterFilm: Countess Stein
  6. 1972We'll Call Him AndreaFilm: Teacher
  7. 1972Shirley's WorldSeries (1 episode)
  8. 1971A Bay of BloodFilm: Countess Federica Donati
  9. 1971MartaFilm: Elena
  10. 1970Roy Colt and Winchester JackFilm: Mamma Lizzy
  11. 1970Love, I ThinkFilm: Sue's Mother
  12. 1970Dorian GrayFilm: Mrs. Patricia Ruxton
  13. 1970Red Hot ShotFilm: Tenutaria bordello
  14. 1969He and SheFilm: Mother
  15. 1969La donna a una dimensioneFilm: Elena
  16. 1968The Shoes of the FishermanFilm: The Marchesa
  17. 1968Dear CarolineFilm: La duchesse de Bussez
  18. 1967Hell Is EmptyFilm: Isa Grant
  19. 1966The Mayfly and the FrogFilm
  20. 1966A Young WorldFilm: Une sage-femme
  21. 1964The Yellow Rolls-RoyceFilm: Duchesse d'Angoulême
  22. 1964Do You Know This Voice?Film: Rosa Marotta
  23. 1964Dog Eat Dog!Film: Madame Benoit
  24. 1964The Gallant MusketeerFilm: Catherine de Medicis
  25. 1964Una storia di notteFilm: Moglie di Peppino
  26. 1963The Empty CanvasFilm: Cecilia's Mother
  27. 1963CorruptionFilm: Mrs. Mattioli
  28. 1963EspionageSeries: Clara (1 episode)
  29. 1963Sergeant CorkSeries: Magda Brandel (1 episode)
  30. 1961The Younger GenerationSeries: Mrs Grigoris (1 episode)
  31. 1961The AvengersSeries: Damita Syn (1 episode)
  32. 1960MaigretSeries (1 episode)
  33. 1959The Great DeceptionFilm: la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie
  34. 1957A Kiss for a KillerFilm: Betty Farnwell
  35. 1957The Dollars Are Coming!Film: Caterina Marchetti
  36. 1957The GuiltyFilm: Lucia Rossello
  37. 1956Armchair TheatreSeries: Maria (1 episode)
  38. 1956I pinguini ci guardanoFilm
  39. 1955Rommel's TreasureFilm: Mrs. Fischer
  40. 1955AbandonedFilm: Contessa Luisa
  41. 1955SummertimeFilm: Signora Fiorini
  42. 1954RasputinFilm: La tsarine Alexandra
  43. 1954The Secret of Helene MarimonFilm: Hélène Marimon
  44. 1954Before the DelugeFilm: Françoise Boussard
  45. 1953We, the WomenFilm: Isa (segment "Isa Miranda")
  46. 1952The Secret ConclaveFilm: Countess
  47. 1952The Seven Deadly SinsFilm: Mrs. Alvaro (segment "L'Avarice et La Colère")
  48. 1951Position WantedFilm: Angela Leonardi
  49. 1950La RondeFilm: Charlotte
  50. 1950Pact with the DevilFilm: Marta Larocca
  51. 1949The Walls of MalapagaFilm: Marta Manfredini
  52. 1948Adventure Starts TomorrowFilm: Clarence Holbane
  53. 1945Lo sbaglio di essere vivoFilm: Maria
  54. 1945La carne e l'animaFilm: Katrin called 'Stella'
  55. 1944ZazàFilm: Zazà
  56. 1943Document Z-3Film: Sandra Morini
  57. 1942MalombraFilm: Marina di Malombra
  58. 1941È caduta una donnaFilm: Dina
  59. 1940Senza cieloFilm: Regina
  60. 1940Adventure in DiamondsFilm: Felice Falcon
  61. 1939Hotel ImperialFilm: Anna Warschawska
  62. 1937The Lie of Nina PetrovnaFilm: Nina Petrovna
  63. 1937Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of HannibalFilm: Velia, a Roman woman
  64. 1937The Man from NowhereFilm: Louise Paleari
  65. 1936Thou Art My JoyFilm: Mary Hofer & Bianca Monti
  66. 1936Una donna tra due mondiFilm: Mira Salviati
  67. 1936The Love of the MaharajaFilm: Mira Salviati
  68. 1935Destiny UnknownFilm: Maria Brunetti
  69. 1935Like the LeavesFilm: Nennele
  70. 1934Everybody's WomanFilm: Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot
  71. 1934TenebreFilm: Vera
  72. 1934Creature della notteFilm: Una gigolette
  73. 1933The Haller CaseFilm: La donna cattiva

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