Isa Miranda
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. 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
Elena
Marta
Countess Federica Donati
Ecologia del delitto
Countess Stein
Il portiere di notte
Madame Benoit
Einer Frisst den Anderen
Caterina Marchetti
Arrivano i dollari!
Mrs. Patricia Ruxton
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Duchesse d'Angoulême
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Marta Manfredini
Au-delà des grilles
Lorè
Le farò da padre
Signora Fiorini
Summertime
Isa (segment "Isa Miranda")
Siamo donne
la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie
Le Secret du chevalier d'Éon
Angela Leonardi
Cameriera bella presenza offresi...
Cecilia's Mother
La noia
Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot
La signora di tutti
Mrs. Mattioli
La corruzione
Betty Farnwell
Une manche et la belle
Felice Falcon
Adventure in Diamonds
Zazà
Zazà
Contessa Luisa
Gli sbandati
Regina
Senza cielo
Marina di Malombra
Malombra
Anna Warschawska
Hotel Imperial
Rosa Marotta
Do You Know This Voice?
Mother
L'assoluto naturale
Vera
Tenebre
Sue's Mother
Un estate con sentimento
Mira Salviati
Die Liebe des Maharadscha
Mrs. Alvaro (segment "Avarice and Anger")
Les Sept Péchés capitaux
Mary Hofer & Bianca Monti
Du bist mein Glück
La duchesse de Bussez
Caroline chérie
Maria
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
Velia, a Roman woman
Scipione l'africano
Lucia Rossello
I colpevoli
Le Secret d'Hélène Marimon
Mrs. Fischer
Il tesoro di Rommel
Dina
È caduta una donna
Louise Paleari
L'Homme de nulle part
Una gigolette
Creature della notte
Nennele
Come le foglie
La donna cattiva
Il Caso Haller
Countess
Gli uomini non guardiano il cielo
Françoise Boussard
Avant le déluge
Moglie di Peppino
Una storia di notte
Tenutaria bordello
Colpo rovente
Teacher
Lo chiameremo Andrea
Clarence Holbane
L'aventure commence demain
Mamma Lizzy
Roy Colt e Winchester Jack
La carne e l'anima
Marta Larocca
Patto col diavolo
Charlotte
La Ronde
Sandra Morini
Documento Z-3
Elena
La donna a una dimensione
Self - film scenes (archive footage)
Leckerbissen
Une sage-femme
Un monde nouveau
Isa Grant
Hell Is Empty
Nina Petrovna
Le Mensonge de Nina Petrovna
The Marchesa
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Maria Brunetti
Passaporto rosso
The Mayfly and the Frog
madre di Maria
Apocalisse di un terremoto
Catherine de Medicis
Hardi ! Pardaillan !
La tsarine Alexandra
Raspoutine
I pinguini ci guardano
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
64
Gender
Female
Birthday
1909-07-05
Place of Birth
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Also Known As
Ines Isabella Sampietro