Acting · Milan, Lombardy, Italy · Born July 5, 1909
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.
MovieApocalisse di un terremoto
1982
as madre di Maria
TVCamilla
1976
as Madre di Camilla
MovieBambina
1974
as Lorè
MovieThe Night Porter
1974
as Countess Stein
MovieWe'll Call Him Andrea
1972
as Teacher
TVShirley's World
1972
MovieA Bay of Blood
1971
as Countess Federica Donati
MovieMarta
1971
as Elena
MovieRoy Colt and Winchester Jack
1970
as Mamma Lizzy
MovieLove, I Think
1970
as Sue's Mother
MovieDorian Gray
1970
as Mrs. Patricia Ruxton
MovieRed Hot Shot
1970
as Tenutaria bordello
MovieHe and She
1969
as Mother
MovieLa donna a una dimensione
1969
as Elena
MovieThe Shoes of the Fisherman
1968
as The Marchesa
MovieDear Caroline
1968
as La duchesse de Bussez
MovieHell Is Empty
1967
as Isa Grant
The Mayfly and the Frog
1966
MovieA Young World
1966
as Une sage-femme
MovieThe Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964
as Duchesse d'Angoulême
MovieDo You Know This Voice?
1964
as Rosa Marotta
MovieDog Eat Dog!
1964
as Madame Benoit
MovieThe Gallant Musketeer
1964
as Catherine de Medicis
MovieUna storia di notte
1964
as Moglie di Peppino
MovieThe Empty Canvas
1963
as Cecilia's Mother
MovieCorruption
1963
as Mrs. Mattioli
TVEspionage
1963
as Clara
TVA Little Big Business
1963
TVSergeant Cork
1963
as Magda Brandel
The Younger Generation
1961
as Mrs Grigoris
TVThe Avengers
1961
as Damita Syn
TVMaigret
1960
MovieThe Great Deception
1959
as la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie
MovieA Kiss for a Killer
1957
as Betty Farnwell
MovieThe Dollars Are Coming!
1957
as Caterina Marchetti
MovieThe Guilty
1957
as Lucia Rossello
TVArmchair Theatre
1956
as Maria
MovieI pinguini ci guardano
1956
MovieRommel's Treasure
1955
as Mrs. Fischer
MovieAbandoned
1955
as Contessa Luisa
MovieSummertime
1955
as Signora Fiorini
MovieRasputin
1954
as La tsarine Alexandra
MovieThe Secret of Helene Marimon
1954
as Hélène Marimon
MovieBefore the Deluge
1954
as Françoise Boussard
MovieWe, the Women
1953
as Isa (segment "Isa Miranda")
MovieThe Secret Conclave
1952
as Countess
MovieThe Seven Deadly Sins
1952
as Mrs. Alvaro (segment "L'Avarice et La Colère")
MoviePosition Wanted
1951
as Angela Leonardi
MovieLa Ronde
1950
as Charlotte
MoviePact with the Devil
1950
as Marta Larocca
MovieThe Walls of Malapaga
1949
as Marta Manfredini
MovieLeckerbissen
1948
as Self - film scenes (archive footage)
MovieAdventure Starts Tomorrow
1948
as Clarence Holbane
MovieLo sbaglio di essere vivo
1945
as Maria
MovieLa carne e l'anima
1945
as Katrin called 'Stella'
MovieZazà
1944
as Zazà
MovieDocument Z-3
1943
as Sandra Morini
MovieMalombra
1942
as Marina di Malombra
MovieÈ caduta una donna
1941
as Dina
MovieSenza cielo
1940
as Regina
MovieAdventure in Diamonds
1940
as Felice Falcon
MovieHotel Imperial
1939
as Anna Warschawska
MovieThe Lie of Nina Petrovna
1937
as Nina Petrovna
MovieScipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
1937
as Velia, a Roman woman
MovieThe Man from Nowhere
1937
as Louise Paleari
MovieThou Art My Joy
1936
as Mary Hofer & Bianca Monti
Una donna tra due mondi
1936
as Mira Salviati
MovieThe Love of the Maharaja
1936
as Mira Salviati
MovieDestiny Unknown
1935
as Maria Brunetti
MovieLike the Leaves
1935
as Nennele
MovieEverybody's Woman
1934
as Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot
MovieTenebre
1934
as Vera
Creature della notte
1934
as Una gigolette
The Haller Case
1933
as La donna cattiva
Il diario di una donna amata
as Marie Bashkirtseff
