
Isa Miranda
Born July 5, 1909 · Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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.
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The Yellow Rolls-Royce

Bambina

Dog Eat Dog!

Dorian Gray

The Seven Deadly Sins

Summertime

Red Hot Shot

Dear Caroline

Do You Know This Voice?

The Walls of Malapaga

Hotel Imperial

The Great Deception

The Gallant Musketeer

Roy Colt and Winchester Jack

Thou Art My Joy

La Ronde

Position Wanted

Zazà

Hell Is Empty

The Secret of Helene Marimon

Everybody's Woman

Before the Deluge

A Kiss for a Killer

È caduta una donna

Tenebre

The Empty Canvas

Corruption

Abandoned

Lo sbaglio di essere vivo

Senza cielo

The Man from Nowhere

Rommel's Treasure

The Lie of Nina Petrovna

The Secret Conclave

Adventure in Diamonds

I pinguini ci guardano

Marta

Una storia di notte

A Young World

The Love of the Maharaja

We, the Women

He and She

La carne e l'anima

Malombra

Love, I Think

We'll Call Him Andrea

The Dollars Are Coming!

Apocalisse di un terremoto

Document Z-3

Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal

Adventure Starts Tomorrow

La donna a una dimensione

Pact with the Devil

The Guilty

Leckerbissen

Like the Leaves

Destiny Unknown










