Isa Miranda

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.​

Known For

Filmography — Acting

The Night Porter
6.7
1974

The Night Porter

Countess Stein

Bambina
4.9
1974

Bambina

Lorè

Summertime
6.7
1955

Summertime

Signora Fiorini

A Bay of Blood
6.6
1971

A Bay of Blood

Countess Federica Donati

The Yellow Rolls-Royce
6.1
1964

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

Duchesse d'Angoulême

The Shoes of the Fisherman
6.8
1968

The Shoes of the Fisherman

The Marchesa

La Ronde
7.3
1950

La Ronde

Charlotte

Dorian Gray
5.0
1970

Dorian Gray

Mrs. Patricia Ruxton

Red Hot Shot
3.2
1970

Red Hot Shot

Tenutaria bordello

Marta
5.2
1971

Marta

Elena

The Walls of Malapaga
6.5
1949

The Walls of Malapaga

Marta Manfredini

Abandoned
6.8
1955

Abandoned

Contessa Luisa

The Empty Canvas
5.9
1963

The Empty Canvas

Cecilia's Mother

Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
5.4
1937

Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal

Velia, a Roman woman

The Seven Deadly Sins
5.9
1952

The Seven Deadly Sins

Mrs. Alvaro (segment "L'Avarice et La Colère")

Corruption
7.6
1963

Corruption

Mrs. Mattioli

Dog Eat Dog!
4.3
1964

Dog Eat Dog!

Madame Benoit

The Great Deception
5.9
1959

The Great Deception

la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie

Do You Know This Voice?
7.8
1964

Do You Know This Voice?

Rosa Marotta

Hell Is Empty
6.0
1967

Hell Is Empty

Isa Grant

Dear Caroline
4.2
1968

Dear Caroline

La duchesse de Bussez

Hotel Imperial
6.0
1939

Hotel Imperial

Anna Warschawska

Position Wanted
8.1
1951

Position Wanted

Angela Leonardi

Before the Deluge
6.3
1954

Before the Deluge

Françoise Boussard

A Kiss for a Killer
5.3
1957

A Kiss for a Killer

Betty Farnwell

A Young World
1966

A Young World

Une sage-femme

Du bist mein Glück
1936

Du bist mein Glück

Mary Hofer & Bianca Monti

Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
4.6
1970

Roy Colt and Winchester Jack

Mamma Lizzy

Malombra
7.0
1942

Malombra

Marina di Malombra

The Gallant Musketeer
5.7
1964

The Gallant Musketeer

Catherine de Medicis

The Guilty
6.2
1957

The Guilty

Lucia Rossello

Rommel's Treasure
4.0
1955

Rommel's Treasure

Mrs. Fischer

Rasputin
5.0
1954

Rasputin

La tsarine Alexandra

He and She
1.0
1969

He and She

Mother

The Man from Nowhere
6.8
1937

The Man from Nowhere

Louise Paleari

The Dollars Are Coming!
6.8
1957

The Dollars Are Coming!

Caterina Marchetti

Zazà
2.7
1944

Zazà

Zazà

Everybody's Woman
6.8
1934

Everybody's Woman

Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot

È caduta una donna
1941

È caduta una donna

Dina

We'll Call Him Andrea
6.8
1972

We'll Call Him Andrea

Teacher

Destiny Unknown
1935

Destiny Unknown

Maria Brunetti

The Secret of Helene Marimon
2.8
1954

The Secret of Helene Marimon

Hélène Marimon

Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
1945

Lo sbaglio di essere vivo

Maria

1966

The Mayfly and the Frog

La donna a una dimensione
1969

La donna a una dimensione

Elena

1950

Pact with the Devil

Marta Larocca

Adventure in Diamonds
5.2
1940

Adventure in Diamonds

Felice Falcon

La carne e l'anima
1945

La carne e l'anima

Katrin called 'Stella'

We, the Women
6.0
1953

We, the Women

Isa (segment "Isa Miranda")

Apocalisse di un terremoto
1982

Apocalisse di un terremoto

madre di Maria

Senza cielo
1940

Senza cielo

Regina

Adventure Starts Tomorrow
2.5
1948

Adventure Starts Tomorrow

Clarence Holbane

Una storia di notte
1964

Una storia di notte

Moglie di Peppino

The Lie of Nina Petrovna
4.9
1937

The Lie of Nina Petrovna

Nina Petrovna

Leckerbissen
1948

Leckerbissen

Self - film scenes (archive footage)

Tenebre
1934

Tenebre

Vera

I pinguini ci guardano
6.5
1956

I pinguini ci guardano

The Secret Conclave
8.5
1952

The Secret Conclave

Countess

1934

Creature della notte

Una gigolette

The Love of the Maharaja
1936

The Love of the Maharaja

Mira Salviati

Love, I Think
7.0
1970

Love, I Think

Sue's Mother

Document Z-3
1943

Document Z-3

Sandra Morini

Like the Leaves
5.0
1935

Like the Leaves

Nennele

1933

The Haller Case

La donna cattiva