Isa Miranda
Born July 05, 1909 (Age: 116)
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Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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. 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.
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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Filmography
Bambina
1974
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as Lorè
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Age: 65
The Night Porter
1974
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as Countess Stein
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Age: 64
We'll Call Him Andrea
1972
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as Teacher
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Age: 63
He and She
1969
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as Mother
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Age: 60
La donna a una dimensione
1969
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as Elena
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Age: 59
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964
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as Duchesse d'Angoulême
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Age: 55
Do You Know This Voice?
1964
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as Rosa Marotta
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Age: 55
Dog Eat Dog!
1964
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as Madame Benoit
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Age: 54
The Gallant Musketeer
1964
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as Catherine de Medicis
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Age: 54
Una storia di notte
1964
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as Moglie di Peppino
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Age: 54
The Empty Canvas
1963
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as Cecilia's Mother
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Age: 54
Corruption
1963
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as Mrs. Mattioli
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Age: 54
The Great Deception
1959
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as la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie
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Age: 50
I pinguini ci guardano
1956
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as
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Age: 46
Rommel's Treasure
1955
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as Mrs. Fischer
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Age: 46
Abandoned
1955
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as Contessa Luisa
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Age: 46
Summertime
1955
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as Signora Fiorini
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Age: 45
Rasputin
1954
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as La tsarine Alexandra
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Age: 45
The Secret of Helene Marimon
1954
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as Hélène Marimon
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Age: 44
Before the Deluge
1954
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as Françoise Boussard
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Age: 44
We, the Women
1953
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as Isa (segment "Isa Miranda")
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Age: 44
La Ronde
1950
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as Charlotte
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Age: 41
No Image
Pact with the Devil
1950
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as Marta Larocca
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Age: 40
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
1945
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as Maria
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Age: 36
La carne e l'anima
1945
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as Katrin called 'Stella'
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Age: 35
Malombra
1942
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as Marina di Malombra
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Age: 33
È caduta una donna
1941
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as Dina
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Age: 32