Isa Miranda: Famous international actress of Bergamasque descent - Part I

 
Isa Miranda

Isa Miranda (July 5, 1909 – July 8, 1982) was an Italian actress with an international film career.

Born: Ines Isabella Sampietro
July 5, 1909
Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy

Died: July 8, 1982 (aged 73)
Rome, Italy

Occupation: Actress

Height: 5'5"

Spouse: Alfredo Guarini (1939–1981; his death)


Biography

Born Ines Isabella Sampietro in Bergamo, 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. She changed her name to Isa Miranda and 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 adventuress with whom men cannot help falling in love. Having brought several of them to their ruin, she slits her wrists. This performance 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, three days after her 73rd birthday.


Selected filmography

The Haller Case (1933)
Creatures of the Night (1934)
Everybody's Woman (1934)
Red Passport (1935)
Like the Leaves (1935)
A Woman Between Two Worlds (1936)
The Lie of Nina Petrovna (1937)
The Man from Nowhere (1937)
The Former Mattia Pascal (1937)
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal (1937)
Hotel Imperial (1939)
Adventure in Diamonds (1940)
A Woman Has Fallen (1941)
Malombra (1942)
Document Z-3 (1942)
My Widow and I (1945)
Pact with the Devil (1950)
La Ronde (1950) as Charlotte, the Actress
Le Secret d'Hélène Marimon (1954)
Rasputin (1954)
Rommel's Treasure (1955)
Summertime (1955)
Arrivano i dollari! (1957)
The Empty Canvas (1963)
The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
Un monde nouveau (1965)
The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
The Syndicate: A Death in the Family (1970)
Dorian Gray (1970)
Roy Colt and Winchester Jack (1970)
Marta (1971)
A Bay of Blood (1971)
Lo chiameremo Andrea (1972)
The Night Porter (1974)
Le farò da padre (1974) 


External links
 
Isa Miranda images (Wikimedia Commons)
Isa Miranda on IMDb
Photographs and literature






Movie Legends - Isa Miranda

Movie Legands

Isa Miranda was an Italian actress with an international film career.


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Isa Miranda, was meant to be the Italian answer to the legendary Marlene Dietrich. Miranda between 1930s and 1940s has been one of the greatest actresses of Italian cinema with Clara Calamai, Anna Magnani, Assia Noris and Alida Valli. BAZ, this is a special tribute to a beautiful actress who unfortunately has been forgotten. Malombra is one of her most famous roles, but unfortunately her films are not remembered on television. Congratulations for this work!
-- The Big Valley, YouTube user

Most beautiful actress...
C.J. Blanda, YouTube user

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