Isa Miranda
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 5, 1909
- Died
- July 8, 1982
- Birthplace
- 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
- Il diario di una donna amata
Il diario di una donna amata TBA
as Marie Bashkirtseff
Apocalisse di un terremoto 1982
as madre di Maria
Bambina 1974
as Lorè
The Night Porter 1974
as Countess Stein
We'll Call Him Andrea 1972
as Teacher
A Bay of Blood 1971
as Countess Federica Donati
Marta 1971
as Elena
Roy Colt and Winchester Jack 1970
as Mamma Lizzy
Love, I Think 1970
as Sue's Mother
Dorian Gray 1970
as Mrs. Patricia Ruxton
Red Hot Shot 1970
as Tenutaria bordello
He and She 1969
as Mother
La donna a una dimensione 1969
as Elena
The Shoes of the Fisherman 1968
as The Marchesa
Dear Caroline 1968
as La duchesse de Bussez
Hell Is Empty 1967
as Isa Grant
- The Mayfly and the Frog
The Mayfly and the Frog 1966
Actor
A Young World 1966
as Une sage-femme
The Yellow Rolls-Royce 1964
as Duchesse d'Angoulême
Do You Know This Voice? 1964
as Rosa Marotta
Dog Eat Dog! 1964
as Madame Benoit
The Gallant Musketeer 1964
as Catherine de Medicis
Una storia di notte 1964
as Moglie di Peppino
The Empty Canvas 1963
as Cecilia's Mother
Corruption 1963
as Mrs. Mattioli
The Great Deception 1959
as la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie
A Kiss for a Killer 1957
as Betty Farnwell
The Dollars Are Coming! 1957
as Caterina Marchetti
The Guilty 1957
as Lucia Rossello
I pinguini ci guardano 1956
Actor
Rommel's Treasure 1955
as Mrs. Fischer
Abandoned 1955
as Contessa Luisa
Summertime 1955
as Signora Fiorini
Rasputin 1954
as La tsarine Alexandra
The Secret of Helene Marimon 1954
as Hélène Marimon
Before the Deluge 1954
as Françoise Boussard
We, the Women 1953
as Isa (segment "Isa Miranda")
The Secret Conclave 1952
as Countess
The Seven Deadly Sins 1952
as Mrs. Alvaro (segment "L'Avarice et La Colère")
Position Wanted 1951
as Angela Leonardi
La Ronde 1950
as Charlotte
Pact with the Devil 1950
as Marta Larocca
The Walls of Malapaga 1949
as Marta Manfredini
Leckerbissen 1948
as Self - film scenes (archive footage)
Adventure Starts Tomorrow 1948
as Clarence Holbane
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo 1945
as Maria
La carne e l'anima 1945
as Katrin called 'Stella'
Zazà 1944
as Zazà
Document Z-3 1943
as Sandra Morini
Malombra 1942
as Marina di Malombra
È caduta una donna 1941
as Dina
Senza cielo 1940
as Regina
Adventure in Diamonds 1940
as Felice Falcon
Hotel Imperial 1939
as Anna Warschawska
The Lie of Nina Petrovna 1937
as Nina Petrovna
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal 1937
as Velia, a Roman woman
The Man from Nowhere 1937
as Louise Paleari
Thou Art My Joy 1936
as Mary Hofer & Bianca Monti
- Una donna tra due mondi
Una donna tra due mondi 1936
as Mira Salviati
The Love of the Maharaja 1936
as Mira Salviati
Destiny Unknown 1935
as Maria Brunetti
Like the Leaves 1935
as Nennele
Everybody's Woman 1934
as Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot
- Creature della notte
Creature della notte 1934
as Una gigolette
Tenebre 1934
as Vera
- The Haller Case
The Haller Case 1933
as La donna cattiva
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