Isa Miranda
Actor
Biography
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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
The Night Porter
as Countess Stein 1974
Summertime
as Signora Fiorini 1955
La Ronde
as Charlotte 1950
The Shoes of the Fisherman
as The Marchesa 1968
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
as Duchesse d'Angoulême 1964
Dorian Gray
as Mrs. Patricia Ruxton 1970
Bambina
as Lorè 1974
Everybody's Woman
as Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot 1934
The Dollars Are Coming!
as Caterina Marchetti 1957
The Walls of Malapaga
as Marta Manfredini 1949
Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
as Mamma Lizzy 1970
Corruption
as Mrs. Mattioli 1963
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
as Velia, a Roman woman 1937
Abandoned
as Contessa Luisa 1955
The Man from Nowhere
as Louise Paleari 1937
We, the Women
as Isa (segment "Isa Miranda") 1953