Isa Miranda
Date of birth: 1909-07-05
Place of birth: Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Ines Isabella Sampietro, Иза Миранда
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.
Movie Credits
Marta
1971-04-10
A wealthy landowner haunted by the spectre of his dead mother has a fling with a beautiful fugitive
A Bay of Blood
1971-09-08
An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all
The Night Porter
1974-04-03
A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel
Dog Eat Dog!
1964-06-25
Three thieves rip off a shipment of used money being sent back to the US. As they are escaping the r
The Dollars Are Coming!
1957-03-29
A widow goes to Italy from South Africa to find out whether or not her late husband's five nephews a
Dorian Gray
1970-04-24
London, England. Dorian Gray is a young man who somehow keeps his beauty eternally, while a mysterio
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964-12-31
One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the c
The Walls of Malapaga
1949-09-19
A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughte
Bambina
1974-09-17
In order to convince Raimonda, a wealthy noble woman, to finance his project for a holiday resort, S
Summertime
1955-06-21
Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spend
We, the Women
1953-10-27
Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.
The Great Deception
1959-09-23
Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to
Position Wanted
1951-11-03
Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job
The Empty Canvas
1963-12-04
An aspiring young artist breaks from his wealthy, possessive mother to live a bohemian existence in
Everybody's Woman
1934-11-29
Gaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can't live
Corruption
1963-11-22
Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is con
A Kiss for a Killer
1957-11-27
In Nice, a wealthy widow is charmed by a young man who marries her and manages her finances. He soon
Adventure in Diamonds
1940-03-08
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) s
Zazà
1944-03-08
A glamorous female singer Zazà (Isa Miranda) has an affair with a passerby engineer Dufresne (Antoni
Abandoned
1955-09-07
A group of rich young intellectuals hiding from the war in rural Italy play at being partisans when
Senza cielo
1940-11-24
Malombra
1942-12-17
A nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her uncle, c
Hotel Imperial
1939-05-11
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrian
Do You Know This Voice?
1964-12-01
When a ransom bid results in the death of a child, the police have only one lead – the old lady who
He and She
1969-09-28
Mysterious romance involving an uninhibited woman and a photographer, shot in strange modernist inte
Tenebre
1934-01-01
Love, I Think
1970-08-11
Italian Film Drama
The Love of the Maharaja
1936-04-14
At a hotel in San Remo, a maharaja living in exile thinks he sees the reincarnation of his dead wife
The Seven Deadly Sins
1952-03-27
A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, an
Du bist mein Glück
1936-10-06
Tenor Mario Monti is searching for his wife Bianca's daughter, who is believed to be dead. Before Ma
Dear Caroline
1968-01-18
Against the backdrop of the French revolution, young Caroline tries to reunite with her first love,
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
1945-12-05
Believed dead, a husband poses as his own brother, to cash in on an insurance policy.But when his fo
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
1937-08-04
A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build
The Secret of Helene Marimon
1954-05-13
At the end of the Great War, the wounded Jacques Taillandier is cared for by the beautiful Hélène Ma
Rommel's Treasure
1955-12-22
The underworld of Cairo is alerted to certain moves of various people in the search for Rommel's tre
È caduta una donna
1941-12-17
In Milan, an unwed mother, forced to flee from her town because of the scandal, meets a doctor who f
The Guilty
1957-03-01
Valerio Rossello is a judge, with a rigid and uncompromising mentality. He is married to Lucia, a wo
The Man from Nowhere
1937-02-18
Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely
Creature della notte
1934-01-01
Like the Leaves
1935-02-01
The Haller Case
1933-01-01
Based on the 1893 play Der Andere by Paul Lindau.
The Secret Conclave
1952-09-17
Before the Deluge
1954-02-26
The title of this French "reality" drama, which translates to Before the Deluge, is a play on Louis
Una storia di notte
1964-01-01
Red Hot Shot
1970-03-31
Frank was removed from an investigation into Mac Brown, the owner of a pharmaceutical company, who w
We'll Call Him Andrea
1972-10-14
Paolo and Maria are two elementary teachers, who love each other, but can not have a child.
Adventure Starts Tomorrow
1948-02-04
Together with her partner-in-crime Claude, Clarence sets her sites on famed explorer Maxime. It seem
Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
1970-08-13
Two outlaws compete with each other over a treasure map that will lead them to buried gold while one
La carne e l'anima
1945-01-11
This melodrama was directed by an émigré Russian from a story by Corrado Alvaro and Emanuele Caracci
Pact with the Devil
1950-01-11
The title of this Italian melodrama translates to Pact with the Devil. However, His Satanic Majesty
La Ronde
1950-09-27
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets a
Document Z-3
1943-04-12
Document Z-3 (Italian:Documento Z-3) is a 1942 Italian spy film directed by Alfredo Guarini and star
La donna a una dimensione
1969-03-11
Paola, still young and married to a rich industrialist, seeks an outlet to the uselessness of her li
Leckerbissen
1948-06-05
"Gems" - Embedded in a frame story, the film shows excerpts from 18 entertainment films of the time,
A Young World
1966-03-25
A freelance photographer falls in love with a French medical student and becomes pregnant. Faced wit
Hell Is Empty
1967-12-20
On the run from the police, a female thief and her band of robbers take refuge on a desert island wh
The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968-11-14
Ukrainian bishop Kiril Lakota, a political prisoner in a Soviet gulag for twenty years, is unexpecte
The Lie of Nina Petrovna
1937-11-04
Nina Petrovna is a Russian beauty claimed by two Austrian officers.
Destiny Unknown
1935-11-13
Based on fact, Passaporto Rosso (Red Passport) details the plight of a group of poor Italian immigra
The Mayfly and the Frog
1966-12-21
When a Rolls Royce damages a scooter, the furious owner goes to seek redress, and finds herself face
Apocalisse di un terremoto
1982-09-06
Originally this was just another Italian drama, but because of the Naples Earthquake, the producers
The Gallant Musketeer
1964-02-21
Set against the troubled period of the Wars of Religion in France, at a time when the three Henries
Rasputin
1954-07-19
Gregory Iefommovich Raspoutine is a monk with healing powers and a liking for debauchery who manages
I pinguini ci guardano
1956-03-08