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