Acting
Isa Miranda
IT, ES, DE, FR cinema · 66 credits
Born
5 July 1909
Died
8 July 1982 (aged 73)
Birthplace
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Also known as Ines Isabella Sampietro · Иза Миранда
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.
Known for
Filmography
Il diario di una donna amata
Il diario di una donna amata
as Marie Bashkirtseff
Apocalisse di un terremoto
as madre di Maria
The Night Porter
as Countess Stein
Bambina
as Lorè
We'll Call Him Andrea
as Teacher
Marta
as Elena
A Bay of Blood
as Countess Federica Donati
Dorian Gray
as Mrs. Patricia Ruxton
Love, I Think
as Sue's Mother
Red Hot Shot
as Tenutaria bordello
Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
as Mamma Lizzy
He and She
as Mother
Dear Caroline
as La duchesse de Bussez
The Shoes of the Fisherman
as The Marchesa
Hell Is Empty
as Isa Grant
A Young World
as Une sage-femme
Dog Eat Dog!
as Madame Benoit
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
as Duchesse d'Angoulême
Do You Know This Voice?
as Rosa Marotta
Una storia di notte
as Moglie di Peppino
The Gallant Musketeer
as Catherine de Medicis
The Empty Canvas
as Cecilia's Mother
Corruption
as Mrs. Mattioli
The Great Deception
as la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie
The Dollars Are Coming!
as Caterina Marchetti
A Kiss for a Killer
as Betty Farnwell
The Guilty
as Lucia Rossello
Summertime
as Signora Fiorini
Abandoned
as Contessa Luisa
Rommel's Treasure
as Mrs. Fischer
The Secret of Helene Marimon
as Hélène Marimon
Before the Deluge
as Françoise Boussard
Rasputin
as La tsarine Alexandra
We, the Women
as Isa (segment "Isa Miranda")
The Seven Deadly Sins
as Mrs. Alvaro (segment "L'Avarice et La Colère")
The Secret Conclave
as Countess
Position Wanted
as Angela Leonardi
Pact with the Devil
as Marta Larocca
La Ronde
as Charlotte
The Walls of Malapaga
as Marta Manfredini
Adventure Starts Tomorrow
as Clarence Holbane
Leckerbissen
as Self - film scenes (archive footage)
La carne e l'anima
as Katrin called 'Stella'
Zazà
as Zazà
Document Z-3
as Sandra Morini
Malombra
as Marina di Malombra
Adventure in Diamonds
as Felice Falcon
Senza cielo
as Regina
Hotel Imperial
as Anna Warschawska
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
as Velia, a Roman woman
The Man from Nowhere
as Louise Paleari
The Lie of Nina Petrovna
as Nina Petrovna
The Love of the Maharaja
as Mira Salviati
Thou Art My Joy
as Mary Hofer & Bianca Monti
Like the Leaves
as Nennele
Destiny Unknown
as Maria Brunetti
Everybody's Woman
as Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot
Tenebre
as Vera
Creature della notte
1934
Creature della notte
as Una gigolette
Il Caso Haller
1933
The Haller Case
as La donna cattiva