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