Isa Miranda
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.
Marta
(Elena)
A Bay of Blood
(Countess Federica Donati)
The Night Porter
(Countess Stein)
Dog Eat Dog!
(Madame Benoit)
The Dollars Are Coming!
(Caterina Marchetti)
Dorian Gray
(Mrs. Patricia Ruxton)
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
(Duchesse d'Angoulême)
The Walls of Malapaga
(Marta Manfredini)
Bambina
(Lorè)
Summertime
(Signora Fiorini)
We, the Women
(Isa (segment "Isa Miranda"))
The Great Deception
(la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie)
Position Wanted
(Angela Leonardi)
The Empty Canvas
(Cecilia's Mother)
Everybody's Woman
(Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot)
Corruption
(Mrs. Mattioli)
A Kiss for a Killer
(Betty Farnwell)
Adventure in Diamonds
(Felice Falcon)
Zazà
(Zazà)
Abandoned
(Contessa Luisa)
Senza cielo
(Regina)
Malombra
(Marina di Malombra)
Hotel Imperial
(Anna Warschawska)
Do You Know This Voice?
(Rosa Marotta)
He and She
(Mother)
Tenebre
(Vera)
Love, I Think
(Sue's Mother)
The Love of the Maharaja
(Mira Salviati)
The Seven Deadly Sins
(Mrs. Alvaro (segment "Avarice and Anger"))
Du bist mein Glück
(Mary Hofer & Bianca Monti)
Dear Caroline
(La duchesse de Bussez)
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
(Velia, a Roman woman)
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
(Maria)
Rommel's Treasure
(Mrs. Fischer)
The Secret of Helene Marimon
È caduta una donna
(Dina)
The Guilty
(Lucia Rossello)
The Man from Nowhere
(Louise Paleari)
Creature della notte
(Una gigolette)
Come le foglie
(Nennele)
The Haller Case
(La donna cattiva)
The Secret Conclave
(Countess)
Before the Deluge
(Françoise Boussard)
Una storia di notte
(Moglie di Peppino)
Red Hot Shot
(Tenutaria bordello)
We'll Call Him Andrea
(Teacher)
Adventure Starts Tomorrow
(Clarence Holbane)
Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
(Mamma Lizzy)
La carne e l'anima
Pact with the Devil
(Marta Larocca)
La Ronde
(Charlotte)
Document Z-3
(Sandra Morini)
La donna a una dimensione
(Elena)
Leckerbissen
(Self - film scenes (archive footage))
A Young World
(Une sage-femme)
Hell Is Empty
(Isa Grant)
The Lie of Nina Petrovna
(Nina Petrovna)
The Shoes of the Fisherman
(The Marchesa)
Destiny Unknown
(Maria Brunetti)
The Mayfly and the Frog
Apocalisse di un terremoto
(madre di Maria)
The Gallant Musketeer
(Catherine de Medicis)
Rasputin
(La tsarine Alexandra)
I pinguini ci guardano
The Avengers
(Damita Syn)
Shirley's World
Maigret
A Little Big Business
Camilla
(Madre di Camilla)