Isa Miranda

Acting

Born Jul 05, 1909

From Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Died Jul 08, 1982

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.

Isa Miranda

Known For

The Night Porter

Bambina

Summertime

A Bay of Blood

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

The Shoes of the Fisherman

La Ronde

Dorian Gray

Red Hot Shot

Marta

Filmography — Acting

The Night Porter

Bambina

Summertime

A Bay of Blood

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

The Shoes of the Fisherman

La Ronde

Dorian Gray

Red Hot Shot

Marta

The Walls of Malapaga

Abandoned

The Empty Canvas

Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal

The Seven Deadly Sins

Corruption

Dog Eat Dog!

The Great Deception

Do You Know This Voice?

Hell Is Empty

Dear Caroline

Hotel Imperial

Position Wanted

Before the Deluge

A Kiss for a Killer

A Young World

Du bist mein Glück

Roy Colt and Winchester Jack

Malombra

The Gallant Musketeer

The Guilty

Rommel's Treasure

Rasputin

He and She

The Man from Nowhere

The Dollars Are Coming!

Zazà

Everybody's Woman

È caduta una donna

We'll Call Him Andrea

Destiny Unknown

The Secret of Helene Marimon

Lo sbaglio di essere vivo

The Mayfly and the Frog

La donna a una dimensione

Pact with the Devil

Adventure in Diamonds

La carne e l'anima

We, the Women

Apocalisse di un terremoto

Senza cielo

Adventure Starts Tomorrow

Una storia di notte

The Lie of Nina Petrovna

Leckerbissen

Tenebre

I pinguini ci guardano

The Secret Conclave

Creature della notte

The Love of the Maharaja

Love, I Think

Document Z-3

Like the Leaves

The Haller Case