8.5
8.5
The Secret Conclave
1952
as Countess
Isa Miranda
Also known as: Ines Isabella Sampietro
Acting
Born:July 5, 1909
Died:July 8, 1982(aged 73)
Birthplace:Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Nationality:Italy
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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 (63 movies)
8.2
8.2
Position Wanted
1951
as Angela Leonardi
7.8
7.8
Do You Know This Voice?
1964
as Rosa Marotta
7.6
7.6
Corruption
1963
as Mrs. Mattioli
7.3
7.3
La Ronde
1950
as Charlotte
7.0
7.0
Love, I Think
1970
as Sue's Mother
6.8
6.8
Abandoned
1955
as Contessa Luisa
6.8
6.8
The Dollars Are Coming!
1957
as Caterina Marchetti
6.8
6.8
We'll Call Him Andrea
1972
as Teacher
6.8
6.8
The Man from Nowhere
1937
as Louise Paleari
6.8
6.8
Malombra
1942
as Marina di Malombra
6.8
6.8
Summertime
1955
as Signora Fiorini
6.8
6.8
Everybody's Woman
1934
as Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot
6.7
6.7
The Night Porter
1974
as Countess Stein
6.7
6.7
The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968
as The Marchesa
6.6
6.6
A Bay of Blood
1971
as Countess Federica Donati
6.5
6.5
I pinguini ci guardano
1956
6.5
6.5
The Walls of Malapaga
1949
as Marta Manfredini
6.3
6.3
Before the Deluge
1954
as Françoise Boussard
6.2
6.2
The Guilty
1957
as Lucia Rossello
6.0
6.0
We, the Women
1953
as Isa (segment "Isa Miranda")
6.0
6.0
Hotel Imperial
1939
as Anna Warschawska
6.0
6.0
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964
as Duchesse d'Angoulême
6.0
6.0
Hell Is Empty
1967
as Isa Grant
5.9
5.9
The Great Deception
1959
as la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie
5.8
5.8
The Empty Canvas
1963
as Cecilia's Mother
5.7
5.7
The Gallant Musketeer
1964
as Catherine de Medicis
5.4
5.4
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
1937
as Velia, a Roman woman
5.3
5.3
A Kiss for a Killer
1957
as Betty Farnwell
5.2
5.2
Adventure in Diamonds
1940
as Felice Falcon
5.2
5.2
Marta
1971
as Elena
5.0
5.0
Rasputin
1954
as La tsarine Alexandra
5.0
5.0
Dorian Gray
1970
as Mrs. Patricia Ruxton
5.0
5.0
Like the Leaves
1935
as Nennele
4.9
4.9
The Lie of Nina Petrovna
1937
as Nina Petrovna
4.9
4.9
Bambina
1974
as Lorè
4.6
4.6
Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
1970
as Mamma Lizzy
4.5
4.5
Dear Caroline
1968
as La duchesse de Bussez
4.3
4.3
Dog Eat Dog!
1964
as Madame Benoit
4.0
4.0
Rommel's Treasure
1955
as Mrs. Fischer
3.3
3.3
Red Hot Shot
1970
as Tenutaria bordello
2.8
2.8
The Secret of Helene Marimon
1954
as Hélène Marimon
2.7
2.7
Zazà
1944
as Zazà
2.5
2.5
Adventure Starts Tomorrow
1948
as Clarence Holbane
1.0
1.0
He and She
1969
as Mother
The Love of the Maharaja
1936
as Mira Salviati
Destiny Unknown
1935
as Maria Brunetti
La carne e l'anima
1945
as Katrin called 'Stella'
Leckerbissen
1948
as Self - film scenes (archive footage)
Document Z-3
1943
as Sandra Morini
A Young World
1966
as Une sage-femme
La donna a una dimensione
1969
as Elena
Apocalisse di un terremoto
1982
as madre di Maria
Una storia di notte
1964
as Moglie di Peppino
Senza cielo
1940
as Regina
Tenebre
1934
as Vera
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
1945
as Maria
Du bist mein Glück
1936
as Mary Hofer & Bianca Monti
È caduta una donna
1941
as Dina
Pact with the Devil
1950
as Marta Larocca
The Mayfly and the Frog
1966
The Haller Case
1933
as La donna cattiva
Creature della notte
1934
as Una gigolette
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