1909-07-05 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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Apocalisse di un terremoto | madre di Maria | 1982-09-06 |
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Le farò da padre | Lorè | 1974-09-17 |
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Il portiere di notte | Countess Stein | 1974-04-03 |
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Lo chiameremo Andrea | Teacher | 1972-10-14 |
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Ecologia del delitto | Countess Federica Donati | 1971-09-08 |
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Marta | Elena | 1971-04-10 |
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Un estate con sentimento | Sue's Mother | 1970-08-11 |
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Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray | Mrs. Patricia Ruxton | 1970-04-24 |
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Colpo rovente | Tenutaria bordello | 1970-03-31 |
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Roy Colt e Winchester Jack | Mamma Lizzy | 1970-08-13 |
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L'assoluto naturale | Mother | 1969-09-28 |
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La donna a una dimensione | Elena | 1969-03-11 |
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Caroline chérie | La duchesse de Bussez | 1968-01-18 |
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The Shoes of the Fisherman | The Marchesa | 1968-11-14 |
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Hell Is Empty | Isa Grant | 1967-12-20 |
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The Mayfly and the Frog | 1966-12-21 | |
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Un monde nouveau | Une sage-femme | 1966-03-25 |
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Einer Frisst den Anderen | Madame Benoit | 1964-06-25 |
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Do You Know This Voice? | Rosa Marotta | 1964-12-01 |
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Una storia di notte | Moglie di Peppino | 1964-01-01 |
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Hardi ! Pardaillan ! | Catherine de Medicis | 1964-02-21 |
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The Yellow Rolls-Royce | Duchesse d'Angoulême | 1964-12-31 |
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La noia | Cecilia's Mother | 1963-12-04 |
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La corruzione | Mrs. Mattioli | 1963-11-22 |
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Le Secret du chevalier d'Éon | la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie | 1959-09-23 |
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I colpevoli | Lucia Rossello | 1957-03-01 |
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Arrivano i dollari! | Caterina Marchetti | 1957-03-29 |
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Une manche et la belle | Betty Farnwell | 1957-11-27 |
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I pinguini ci guardano | 1956-03-08 | |
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Gli sbandati | Contessa Luisa | 1955-09-07 |
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Il tesoro di Rommel | Mrs. Fischer | 1955-12-22 |
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Summertime | Signora Fiorini | 1955-06-21 |
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Raspoutine | La tsarine Alexandra | 1954-07-19 |
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Le Secret d'Hélène Marimon | Hélène Marimon | 1954-05-13 |
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Avant le déluge | Françoise Boussard | 1954-02-26 |
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Siamo donne | Isa (segment "Isa Miranda") | 1953-10-27 |
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Les Sept Péchés capitaux | Mrs. Alvaro (segment "Avarice and Anger") | 1952-03-27 |
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Gli uomini non guardiano il cielo | Countess | 1952-09-17 |
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Cameriera bella presenza offresi... | Angela Leonardi | 1951-11-03 |
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La Ronde | Charlotte | 1950-09-27 |
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Patto col diavolo | Marta Larocca | 1950-01-11 |
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Au-delà des grilles | Marta Manfredini | 1949-09-19 |
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Leckerbissen | Self - film scenes (archive footage) | 1948-06-05 |
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L'aventure commence demain | Clarence Holbane | 1948-02-04 |
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La carne e l'anima | 1945-01-11 | |
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Lo sbaglio di essere vivo | Maria | 1945-12-05 |
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Zazà | Zazà | 1944-03-08 |
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Documento Z-3 | Sandra Morini | 1943-04-12 |
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Malombra | Marina di Malombra | 1942-12-17 |
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È caduta una donna | Dina | 1941-12-17 |
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Senza cielo | Regina | 1940-11-24 |
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Adventure in Diamonds | Felice Falcon | 1940-03-08 |
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Hotel Imperial | Anna Warschawska | 1939-05-11 |
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Scipione l'africano | Velia, a Roman woman | 1937-08-04 |
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L'Homme de nulle part | Louise Paleari | 1937-02-18 |
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Le Mensonge de Nina Petrovna | Nina Petrovna | 1937-11-04 |
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Die Liebe des Maharadscha | Mira Salviati | 1936-04-14 |
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Du bist mein Glück | Mary Hofer & Bianca Monti | 1936-10-06 |
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Come le foglie | Nennele | 1935-02-01 |
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Passaporto rosso | Maria Brunetti | 1935-11-13 |
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La signora di tutti | Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot | 1934-11-29 |
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Tenebre | Vera | 1934-01-01 |
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Creature della notte | Una gigolette | 1934-01-01 |
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Il Caso Haller | La donna cattiva | 1933-01-01 |
