Isa Miranda

Biography

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. …

Movies & TV Shows

1. A Bay of Blood (1971) — Countess Federica Donati
2. The Night Porter (1974) — Countess Stein
3. Summertime (1955) — Signora Fiorini
4. The Avengers (1961) — Damita Syn
5. La Ronde (1950) — Charlotte
6. The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) — The Marchesa
7. The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964) — Duchesse d'Angoulême
8. Dorian Gray (1970) — Mrs. Patricia Ruxton
9. Bambina (1974) — Lorè
10. Everybody's Woman (1934) — Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot
11. The Dollars Are Coming! (1957) — Caterina Marchetti
12. The Walls of Malapaga (1949) — Marta Manfredini
13. Roy Colt and Winchester Jack (1970) — Mamma Lizzy
14. Corruption (1963) — Mrs. Mattioli
15. Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal (1937) — Velia, a Roman woman
16. We, the Women (1953) — Isa (segment "Isa Miranda")
17. Abandoned (1955) — Contessa Luisa
18. The Man from Nowhere (1937) — Louise Paleari
19. Malombra (1942) — Marina di Malombra
20. The Empty Canvas (1963) — Cecilia's Mother
21. A Kiss for a Killer (1957) — Betty Farnwell
22. The Seven Deadly Sins (1952) — Mrs. Alvaro (segment "L'Avarice et La Colère")
23. Maigret (1960)
24. Marta (1971) — Elena
25. Before the Deluge (1954) — Françoise Boussard
26. The Great Deception (1959) — la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie
27. Dog Eat Dog! (1964) — Madame Benoit
28. The Lie of Nina Petrovna (1937) — Nina Petrovna
29. The Gallant Musketeer (1964) — Catherine de Medicis
30. Dear Caroline (1968) — La duchesse de Bussez
31. Red Hot Shot (1970) — Tenutaria bordello
32. Armchair Theatre (1956) — Maria
33. Position Wanted (1951) — Angela Leonardi
34. Adventure in Diamonds (1940) — Felice Falcon
35. Do You Know This Voice? (1964) — Rosa Marotta
36. The Secret of Helene Marimon (1954) — Hélène Marimon
37. We'll Call Him Andrea (1972) — Teacher
38. Sergeant Cork (1963) — Magda Brandel
39. Zazà (1944) — Zazà
40. He and She (1969) — Mother