1909-07-05 ( 115 years old ) in Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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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.
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Movies
Apocalisse di un terremoto
1982-09-06
Bambina
1974-09-17
The Night Porter
1974-04-03
We'll Call Him Andrea
1972-10-14
A Bay of Blood
1971-09-08
Marta
1971-04-10
Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
1970-08-13
Love, I Think
1970-08-11
Dorian Gray
1970-04-24
Red Hot Shot
1970-03-31
He and She
1969-09-28
La donna a una dimensione
1969-03-11
The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968-11-14
Dear Caroline
1968-01-18
Hell Is Empty
1967-12-20
The Mayfly and the Frog
1966-12-21
A Young World
1966-03-25
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964-12-31
Do You Know This Voice?
1964-12-01
Dog Eat Dog!
1964-06-25
The Gallant Musketeer
1964-02-21
Una storia di notte
1964-01-01
The Empty Canvas
1963-12-04
Corruption
1963-11-22
The Great Deception
1959-09-23
A Kiss for a Killer
1957-11-27
The Dollars Are Coming!
1957-03-29
The Guilty
1957-03-01
I pinguini ci guardano
1956-03-08
Rommel's Treasure
1955-12-22
Abandoned
1955-09-07
Summertime
1955-06-21
Rasputin
1954-07-19
The Secret of Helene Marimon
1954-05-13
Before the Deluge
1954-02-26
We, the Women
1953-10-27
The Secret Conclave
1952-09-17
The Seven Deadly Sins
1952-03-27
Position Wanted
1951-11-03
La Ronde
1950-09-27
Pact with the Devil
1950-01-11
The Walls of Malapaga
1949-09-19
Leckerbissen
1948-06-05
Adventure Starts Tomorrow
1948-02-04
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
1945-12-05
La carne e l'anima
1945-01-11
Zazà
1944-03-08
Document Z-3
1943-04-12
Malombra
1942-12-17
È caduta una donna
1941-12-17
Senza cielo
1940-11-24
Adventure in Diamonds
1940-03-08
Hotel Imperial
1939-05-11
The Lie of Nina Petrovna
1937-11-04
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
1937-08-04
The Man from Nowhere
1937-02-18
Du bist mein Glück
1936-10-06
The Love of the Maharaja
1936-04-14
Destiny Unknown
1935-11-13
Come le foglie
1935-02-01
Everybody's Woman
1934-11-29
Tenebre
1934-01-01
Creature della notte
1934-01-01
The Haller Case
1933-01-01
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