About

Known credits:
66
Birthday:
1909-07-05
Place of birth:
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Isa Miranda

Overview

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.

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Known for

Acting
1982 Apocalisse di un terremoto Actor madre di Maria N/A
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1976 Camilla Actor Madre di Camilla N/A
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1974 Bambina Actor Lorè 58
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1974 The Night Porter Actor Countess Stein 62
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1972 We'll Call Him Andrea Actor Teacher 59
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1971 A Bay of Blood Actor Countess Federica Donati 61
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1971 Marta Actor Elena 58
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1970 Roy Colt and Winchester Jack Actor Mamma Lizzy 58
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1970 Love, I Think Actor Sue's Mother 59
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1970 Dorian Gray Actor Mrs. Patricia Ruxton 58
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1970 Red Hot Shot Actor Tenutaria bordello 58
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1969 He and She Actor Mother 58
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1969 La donna a una dimensione Actor Elena N/A
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1968 The Shoes of the Fisherman Actor The Marchesa 60
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1968 Dear Caroline Actor La duchesse de Bussez 59
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1967 Hell Is Empty Actor Isa Grant 59
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1966 The Mayfly and the Frog Actor N/A
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1966 A Young World Actor Une sage-femme N/A
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1964 The Yellow Rolls-Royce Actor Duchesse d'Angoulême 59
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1964 Do You Know This Voice? Actor Rosa Marotta 59
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1964 Dog Eat Dog! Actor Madame Benoit 58
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1964 The Gallant Musketeer Actor Catherine de Medicis 59
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1964 Una storia di notte Actor Moglie di Peppino N/A
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1963 The Empty Canvas Actor Cecilia's Mother 58
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1963 Corruption Actor Mrs. Mattioli 59
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1963 A Little Big Business Actor N/A
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1959 The Great Deception Actor la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie 59
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1957 A Kiss for a Killer Actor Betty Farnwell 58
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1957 The Dollars Are Coming! Actor Caterina Marchetti 59
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1957 The Guilty Actor Lucia Rossello 59
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1956 I pinguini ci guardano Actor 59
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1955 Rommel's Treasure Actor Mrs. Fischer 59
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1955 Abandoned Actor Contessa Luisa 59
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1955 Summertime Actor Signora Fiorini 60
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1954 Rasputin Actor La tsarine Alexandra N/A
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1954 The Secret of Helene Marimon Actor 58
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1954 Before the Deluge Actor Françoise Boussard 59
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1953 We, the Women Actor Isa (segment "Isa Miranda") 59
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1952 The Secret Conclave Actor Countess 58
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1952 The Seven Deadly Sins Actor Mrs. Alvaro (segment "Avarice and Anger") 59
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1951 Position Wanted Actor Angela Leonardi 59
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1950 La Ronde Actor Charlotte 61
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1950 Pact with the Devil Actor Marta Larocca N/A
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1949 The Walls of Malapaga Actor Marta Manfredini 59
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1948 Leckerbissen Actor Self - film scenes (archive footage) N/A
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1948 Adventure Starts Tomorrow Actor Clarence Holbane 58
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1945 Lo sbaglio di essere vivo Actor Maria N/A
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1945 La carne e l'anima Actor N/A
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1944 Zazà Actor Zazà 58
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1943 Document Z-3 Actor Sandra Morini N/A
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1942 Malombra Actor Marina di Malombra 59
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1941 È caduta una donna Actor Dina N/A
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1940 Senza cielo Actor Regina N/A
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1940 Adventure in Diamonds Actor Felice Falcon 58
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1939 Hotel Imperial Actor Anna Warschawska 59
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1937 The Lie of Nina Petrovna Actor Nina Petrovna 59
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1937 Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal Actor Velia, a Roman woman 59
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1937 The Man from Nowhere Actor Louise Paleari 59
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1936 Du bist mein Glück Actor Mary Hofer & Bianca Monti N/A
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1936 The Love of the Maharaja Actor Mira Salviati N/A
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1935 Destiny Unknown Actor Maria Brunetti N/A
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1935 Come le foglie Actor Nennele 59
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1934 Everybody's Woman Actor Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot 59
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1934 Creature della notte Actor Una gigolette N/A
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1934 Tenebre Actor Vera N/A
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1933 The Haller Case Actor La donna cattiva N/A
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