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.​

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1948Leckerbissen — Self - film scenes (archive footage)