Isa Miranda

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: Acting

Born: Milan, Lombardy, Italy, 1909-07-05

Died: 1982-07-08

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1933	The Haller Case	La donna cattiva	0
2	1934	Tenebre	Vera	0
3	1934	Creature della notte	Una gigolette	0
4	1934	Everybody's Woman	Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot	69
5	1935	Come le foglie	Nennele	50
6	1935	Destiny Unknown	Maria Brunetti	0
7	1936	The Love of the Maharaja	Mira Salviati	0
8	1936	Du bist mein Glück	Mary Hofer & Bianca Monti	0
9	1937	The Man from Nowhere	Louise Paleari	68
10	1937	Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal	Velia, a Roman woman	55
11	1937	The Lie of Nina Petrovna	Nina Petrovna	56
12	1939	Hotel Imperial	Anna Warschawska	60
13	1940	Adventure in Diamonds	Felice Falcon	52
14	1940	Senza cielo	Regina	0
15	1941	È caduta una donna	Dina	0
16	1942	Malombra	Marina di Malombra	68
17	1943	Document Z-3	Sandra Morini	0
18	1944	Zazà	Zazà	35
19	1945	La carne e l'anima		0
20	1945	Lo sbaglio di essere vivo	Maria	0
21	1948	Adventure Starts Tomorrow	Clarence Holbane	25
22	1948	Leckerbissen	Self - film scenes (archive footage)	0
23	1949	The Walls of Malapaga	Marta Manfredini	64
24	1950	Pact with the Devil	Marta Larocca	0
25	1950	La Ronde	Charlotte	73
26	1951	Position Wanted	Angela Leonardi	82
27	1952	The Seven Deadly Sins	Mrs. Alvaro (segment "Avarice and Anger")	60
28	1952	The Secret Conclave	Countess	85
29	1953	We, the Women	Isa (segment "Isa Miranda")	60
30	1954	Before the Deluge	Françoise Boussard	63
31	1954	The Secret of Helene Marimon	Hélène Marimon	33
32	1954	Rasputin	La tsarine Alexandra	50
33	1955	Summertime	Signora Fiorini	68
34	1955	Abandoned	Contessa Luisa	68
35	1955	Rommel's Treasure	Mrs. Fischer	40
36	1956	I pinguini ci guardano		65
37	1957	The Guilty	Lucia Rossello	62
38	1957	The Dollars Are Coming!	Caterina Marchetti	68
39	1957	A Kiss for a Killer	Betty Farnwell	56
40	1959	The Great Deception	la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie	59
41	1963	Corruption	Mrs. Mattioli	76
42	1963	The Empty Canvas	Cecilia's Mother	61
43	1964	Una storia di notte	Moglie di Peppino	0
44	1964	The Gallant Musketeer	Catherine de Medicis	57
45	1964	Dog Eat Dog!	Madame Benoit	43
46	1964	Do You Know This Voice?	Rosa Marotta	78
47	1964	The Yellow Rolls-Royce	Duchesse d'Angoulême	61
48	1966	A Young World	Une sage-femme	0
49	1966	The Mayfly and the Frog		0
50	1967	Hell Is Empty	Isa Grant	60
51	1968	Dear Caroline	La duchesse de Bussez	45
52	1968	The Shoes of the Fisherman	The Marchesa	67
53	1969	La donna a una dimensione	Elena	0
54	1969	He and She	Mother	10
55	1970	Red Hot Shot	Tenutaria bordello	40
56	1970	Dorian Gray	Mrs. Patricia Ruxton	51
57	1970	Love, I Think	Sue's Mother	70
58	1970	Roy Colt and Winchester Jack	Mamma Lizzy	48
59	1971	Marta	Elena	55
60	1971	A Bay of Blood	Countess Federica Donati	66
61	1972	We'll Call Him Andrea	Teacher	68
62	1974	The Night Porter	Countess Stein	68
63	1974	Bambina	Lorè	50
64	1982	Apocalisse di un terremoto	madre di Maria	0

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Year

Title

Role

Vote Average

1933