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