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Isa Miranda

Isa Miranda

Known for: Acting

Born 05/07/1909
Died 1982-07-08
Place of birth Milan, Lombardy, Italy

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

The Avengers Series ★ 7,8

The Avengers

Damita Syn

1961

Maigret Series ★ 7,1

Maigret

1960

Espionage Series ★ 10,0

Espionage

Clara

1963

Sergeant Cork Series ★ 7,2

Sergeant Cork

Magda Brandel

1963

The Night Porter Film ★ 6,7

The Night Porter

Countess Stein

1974

Shirley's World Series ★ 6,0

Shirley's World

1972

Series ★ 9,0

The Younger Generation

Mrs Grigoris

1961

A Bay of Blood Film ★ 6,6

A Bay of Blood

Countess Federica Donati

1971

Bambina Film ★ 4,9

Bambina

Lorè

1974

The Shoes of the Fisherman Film ★ 6,8

The Shoes of the Fisherman

The Marchesa

1968

Summertime Film ★ 6,7

Summertime

Signora Fiorini

1955

The Yellow Rolls-Royce Film ★ 6,1

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

Duchesse d'Angoulême

1964

Dog Eat Dog! Film ★ 4,9

Dog Eat Dog!

Madame Benoit

1964

La Ronde Film ★ 7,3

La Ronde

Charlotte

1950

Armchair Theatre Series ★ 6,0

Armchair Theatre

Maria

1956

Dorian Gray Film ★ 5,1

Dorian Gray

Mrs. Patricia Ruxton

1970

Red Hot Shot Film ★ 4,2

Red Hot Shot

Tenutaria bordello

1970

Dear Caroline Film ★ 4,7

Dear Caroline

La duchesse de Bussez

1968

Camilla Series ★ 9,0

Camilla

Madre di Camilla

1976

The Gallant Musketeer Film ★ 5,9

The Gallant Musketeer

Catherine de Medicis

1964

È caduta una donna Film ★ 10,0

È caduta una donna

Dina

1941

The Seven Deadly Sins Film ★ 6,0

The Seven Deadly Sins

Mrs. Alvaro (segment "L'Avarice et La Colère")

1952

Zazà Film ★ 4,5

Zazà

Zazà

1944

Tenebre Film ★ 10,0

Tenebre

Vera

1934

Thou Art My Joy Film ★ 9,0

Thou Art My Joy

Mary Hofer & Bianca Monti

1936

The Walls of Malapaga Film ★ 6,5

The Walls of Malapaga

Marta Manfredini

1949

The Empty Canvas Film ★ 6,0

The Empty Canvas

Cecilia's Mother

1963

The Dollars Are Coming! Film ★ 6,8

The Dollars Are Coming!

Caterina Marchetti

1957

Before the Deluge Film ★ 6,6

Before the Deluge

Françoise Boussard

1954

Corruption Film ★ 7,6

Corruption

Mrs. Mattioli

1963

He and She Film ★ 2,8

He and She

Mother

1969

Senza cielo Film ★ 10,0

Senza cielo

Regina

1940

A Little Big Business Series ★ 6,0

A Little Big Business

1963

Roy Colt and Winchester Jack Film ★ 4,7

Roy Colt and Winchester Jack

Mamma Lizzy

1970

Adventure in Diamonds Film ★ 6,0

Adventure in Diamonds

Felice Falcon

1940

The Secret of Helene Marimon Film ★ 4,2

The Secret of Helene Marimon

Hélène Marimon

1954

A Kiss for a Killer Film ★ 5,6

A Kiss for a Killer

Betty Farnwell

1957

Pact with the Devil Film ★ 8,0

Pact with the Devil

Marta Larocca

1950

Marta Film ★ 5,5

Marta

Elena

1971

Position Wanted Film ★ 8,3

Position Wanted

Angela Leonardi

1951

A Young World Film ★ 10,0

A Young World

Une sage-femme

1966

We, the Women Film ★ 6,2

We, the Women

Isa (segment "Isa Miranda")

1953

Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal Film ★ 5,5

Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal

Velia, a Roman woman

1937

Hotel Imperial Film ★ 7,0

Hotel Imperial

Anna Warschawska

1939

Abandoned Film ★ 7,0

Abandoned

Contessa Luisa

1955

The Great Deception Film ★ 6,0

The Great Deception

la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie

1959

Hell Is Empty Film ★ 8,0

Hell Is Empty

Isa Grant

1967

We'll Call Him Andrea Film ★ 7,2

We'll Call Him Andrea

Teacher

1972

Everybody's Woman Film ★ 6,7

Everybody's Woman

Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot

1934

Film

Una donna tra due mondi

Mira Salviati

1936

Leckerbissen Film ★ 9,0

Leckerbissen

Self - film scenes (archive footage)

1948

Rommel's Treasure Film ★ 5,0

Rommel's Treasure

Mrs. Fischer

1955

Film ★ 9,0

The Mayfly and the Frog

1966

The Guilty Film ★ 7,1

The Guilty

Lucia Rossello

1957

The Man from Nowhere Film ★ 6,8

The Man from Nowhere

Louise Paleari

1937

Do You Know This Voice? Film ★ 7,8

Do You Know This Voice?

Rosa Marotta

1964

Film

Il diario di una donna amata

Marie Bashkirtseff

La carne e l'anima Film ★ 9,0

La carne e l'anima

Katrin called 'Stella'

1945

Like the Leaves Film ★ 5,0

Like the Leaves

Nennele

1935

Rasputin Film ★ 6,5

Rasputin

La tsarine Alexandra

1954

The Lie of Nina Petrovna Film ★ 5,3

The Lie of Nina Petrovna

Nina Petrovna

1937

Una storia di notte Film ★ 7,0

Una storia di notte

Moglie di Peppino

1964

Adventure Starts Tomorrow Film ★ 4,7

Adventure Starts Tomorrow

Clarence Holbane

1948

Document Z-3 Film ★ 10,0

Document Z-3

Sandra Morini

1943

Destiny Unknown Film ★ 8,0

Destiny Unknown

Maria Brunetti

1935

Lo sbaglio di essere vivo Film ★ 10,0

Lo sbaglio di essere vivo

Maria

1945

I pinguini ci guardano Film ★ 7,7

I pinguini ci guardano

1956

Film ★ 10,0

Creature della notte

Una gigolette

1934

Love, I Think Film ★ 7,0

Love, I Think

Sue's Mother

1970

The Secret Conclave Film ★ 8,8

The Secret Conclave

Countess

1952

The Love of the Maharaja Film ★ 7,0

The Love of the Maharaja

Mira Salviati

1936

Film ★ 7,0

The Haller Case

La donna cattiva

1933

Malombra Film ★ 7,2

Malombra

Marina di Malombra

1942

La donna a una dimensione Film ★ 7,0

La donna a una dimensione

Elena

1969

Apocalisse di un terremoto Film ★ 9,0

Apocalisse di un terremoto

madre di Maria

1982