Isa Miranda
65 movies · 8 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 5, 1909
- Died
- Jul 8, 1982 (age 73)
- Place of birth
- Milan, Lombardy, Italy
- Also known as
- Ines Isabella Sampietro · Иза Миранда
Biography
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Isa Miranda (5 July 1909 – 8 July 1982) was an Italian actress with an international film career.
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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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Isa Miranda: movies and TV shows
Acting (73)
- Upcoming Il diario di una donna amata
as Marie Bashkirtseff
- 1982 Apocalisse di un terremoto
as madre di Maria
- 1976
- 1974 Bambina
as Lorè
- 1974 The Night Porter
as Countess Stein
- 1972 We'll Call Him Andrea
as Teacher
- 1972
- 1971 A Bay of Blood
as Countess Federica Donati
- 1971 Marta
as Elena
- 1970 Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
as Mamma Lizzy
- 1970 Love, I Think
as Sue's Mother
- 1970 Dorian Gray
as Mrs. Patricia Ruxton
- 1970 Red Hot Shot
as Tenutaria bordello
- 1969 He and She
as Mother
- 1969 La donna a una dimensione
as Elena
- 1968 The Shoes of the Fisherman
as The Marchesa
- 1968 Dear Caroline
as La duchesse de Bussez
- 1967 Hell Is Empty
as Isa Grant
- 1966
- 1966 A Young World
as Une sage-femme
- 1964 The Yellow Rolls-Royce
as Duchesse d'Angoulême
- 1964 Do You Know This Voice?
as Rosa Marotta
- 1964 Dog Eat Dog!
as Madame Benoit
- 1964 The Gallant Musketeer
as Catherine de Medicis
- 1964 Una storia di notte
as Moglie di Peppino
- 1963 The Empty Canvas
as Cecilia's Mother
- 1963 Corruption
as Mrs. Mattioli
- 1963
- 1963
- 1961
- 1961
- 1960
- 1959 The Great Deception
as la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie
- 1957 A Kiss for a Killer
as Betty Farnwell
- 1957 The Dollars Are Coming!
as Caterina Marchetti
- 1957 The Guilty
as Lucia Rossello
- 1956
- 1956
- 1955 Rommel's Treasure
as Mrs. Fischer
- 1955 Abandoned
as Contessa Luisa
- 1955 Summertime
as Signora Fiorini
- 1954 Rasputin
as La tsarine Alexandra
- 1954 The Secret of Helene Marimon
as Hélène Marimon
- 1954 Before the Deluge
as Françoise Boussard
- 1953 We, the Women
as Isa (segment "Isa Miranda")
- 1952 The Secret Conclave
as Countess
- 1952 The Seven Deadly Sins
as Mrs. Alvaro (segment "L'Avarice et La Colère")
- 1951 Position Wanted
as Angela Leonardi
- 1950 La Ronde
as Charlotte
- 1950 Pact with the Devil
as Marta Larocca
- 1949 The Walls of Malapaga
as Marta Manfredini
- 1948 Adventure Starts Tomorrow
as Clarence Holbane
- 1945 Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
as Maria
- 1945 La carne e l'anima
as Katrin called 'Stella'
- 1944 Zazà
as Zazà
- 1943 Document Z-3
as Sandra Morini
- 1942 Malombra
as Marina di Malombra
- 1941 È caduta una donna
as Dina
- 1940 Senza cielo
as Regina
- 1940 Adventure in Diamonds
as Felice Falcon
- 1939 Hotel Imperial
as Anna Warschawska
- 1937 The Lie of Nina Petrovna
as Nina Petrovna
- 1937 Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
as Velia, a Roman woman
- 1937 The Man from Nowhere
as Louise Paleari
- 1936 Thou Art My Joy
as Mary Hofer & Bianca Monti
- 1936 Una donna tra due mondi
as Mira Salviati
- 1936 The Love of the Maharaja
as Mira Salviati
- 1935 Destiny Unknown
as Maria Brunetti
- 1935 Like the Leaves
as Nennele
- 1934 Everybody's Woman
as Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot
- 1934 Tenebre
as Vera
- 1934 Creature della notte
as Una gigolette
- 1933 The Haller Case
as La donna cattiva
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1948