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Isa Miranda
Actor
Born July 5, 1909Died July 8, 1982 (73 years)
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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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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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Filmography
| 1974 | Bambina · as Lorè |
| 1974 | The Night Porter · as Countess Stein |
| 1972 | We'll Call Him Andrea · as Teacher |
| 1971 | Shirley's World (TV Series) |
| 1971 | A Bay of Blood · as Countess Federica Donati |
| 1971 | Marta · as Elena |
| 1970 | Dorian Gray · as Mrs. Patricia Ruxton |
| 1970 | Roy Colt & Winchester Jack · as Mamma Lizzy |
| 1970 | Red Hot Shot · as Tenutaria Bordello |
| 1969 | Paul Temple (TV Series) · as Frau Julia Baumann |
| 1969 | He and She · as Mother |
| 1968 | The Shoes of the Fisherman · as The Marchesa |
| 1968 | Caroline chérie · as La Duchesse De Bussez |
| 1966 | A New World · as Une Sage-Femme |
| 1966 | Die Gentlemen bitten zur Kasse (TV Series) · as Mona |
| 1966 | The Baron (TV Series) · as Mira Cossackian |
| 1964 | The Yellow Rolls-Royce · as Duchesse D'angoulême |
| 1964 | Dog Eat Dog! · as Madame Benoit |
| 1964 | Do You Know This Voice? · as Rosa Marotta |
| 1964 | The Wednesday Play (TV Series) · as Madame Roo |
| 1964 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) · as Dolores |
| 1964 | Hardi Pardaillan! · as Catherine De Medicis |
| 1963 | The Empty Canvas · as Cecilia's Mother |
| 1963 | La corruzione · as Mrs. Mattioli |
| 1963 | Espionage (TV Series) · as Clara |
| 1963 | Sergeant Cork (TV Series) · as Magda Brandel |
| 1961 | Ghost Squad (TV Series) · as Teresa Pantera |
| 1961 | The Avengers (TV Series) · as Damita Syn |
| 1960 | BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) · as Madame Crevelli |
| 1959 | Maigret (1960) (TV Series) |
| 1959 | Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon · as La Tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana De Russie |
| 1957 | A Kiss for a Killer · as Betty Farnwell |
| 1957 | Arrivano i dollari! · as Caterina Marchetti |
| 1957 | The Guilty · as Lucia Rossello |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre (TV Series) · as Karinskaya |
| 1956 | Sulle strade di notte · as Lucia |
| 1955 | Rommel's Treasure · as Mrs. Fischer |
| 1955 | Abandoned · as Contessa Luisa |
| 1955 | Summertime · as Signora Fiorini |
| 1954 | Raspoutine · as La Tsarine Alexandra |
| 1954 | |
| 1954 | Before the Deluge · as Françoise Boussard |
| 1953 | We, the Women · as Isa (segment "isa Miranda") |
| 1952 | The Seven Deadly Sins · as Mrs. Alvaro (segment "avarice And Anger") |
| 1951 | Position Wanted · as Angela Leonardi |
| 1950 | La Ronde · as Charlotte |
| 1950 | I'm in the Revue · as Isa |
| 1949 | The Walls of Malapaga · as Marta Manfredini |
| 1948 | Adventure Starts Tomorrow · as Clarence Holbane |
| 1944 | Zazà · as Zazà |
| 1942 | Malombra · as Marina Di Malombra |
| 1940 | Adventure in Diamonds · as Felice Falcon |
| 1939 | Hotel Imperial · as Anna Warschawska |
| 1937 | The Lie of Nina Petrovna · as Nina Petrovna |
| 1937 | Scipione l'africano · as Velia, A Roman Woman |
| 1937 | The Man from Nowhere · as Louise Paleari |
| 1936 | Thou Art My Joy · as Mary Hofer & Bianca Monti |
| 1936 | Between Two Worlds · as Mina Salviati |
| 1935 | Like the Leaves · as Nennele |
| 1934 | Everybody's Woman · as Gabriella Murge, Alias Gaby Doriot |