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