
Isa Miranda
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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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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.083 |
Birthday | 1909-07-05 |
Place of Birth | Milan, Lombardy, Italy |
Also Known As | Ines Isabella Sampietro, Иза Миранда, |

1971

Marta
5.5/12
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1971

A Bay of Blood
6.6/381
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1974

The Night Porter
6.8/338
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1964

Dog Eat Dog!
4.3/7
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1957

The Dollars Are Coming!
6.793/29
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1970

Dorian Gray
5.2/37
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1964

The Yellow Rolls-Royce
6.1/42
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1949

The Walls of Malapaga
6.3/27
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1974

Bambina
5/34
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1955

Summertime
6.8/148
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1953

We, the Women
6/17
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1959

The Great Deception
5.9/8
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1951

Position Wanted
8.2/3
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1963

The Empty Canvas
6.1/12
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1934

Everybody's Woman
6.9/31
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1963

Corruption
7.6/24
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1957

A Kiss for a Killer
5.6/12
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1940

Adventure in Diamonds
5.2/4
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1944

Zazà
3.5/2
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1955

Abandoned
6.8/19
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1940

Senza cielo
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1942

Malombra
6.9/15
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1939

Hotel Imperial
6/2
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1964

Do You Know This Voice?
7.8/4
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1969

He and She
1/1
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1934

Tenebre
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1970

Love, I Think
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1936

The Love of the Maharaja
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1952

The Seven Deadly Sins
6/13
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1936

Du bist mein Glück
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1968

Dear Caroline
4.5/2
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1937

Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
5.5/22
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1945

Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
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1955

Rommel's Treasure
4/2
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1954

The Secret of Helene Marimon
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1941

È caduta una donna
0/0
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1957

The Guilty
6.2/3
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1937

The Man from Nowhere
6.7/18
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1934

Creature della notte
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1935

Come le foglie
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1933

The Haller Case
0/0
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1952

The Secret Conclave
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1954

Before the Deluge
6.3/10
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1964

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1970

Red Hot Shot
4/3
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1972

We'll Call Him Andrea
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1948

Adventure Starts Tomorrow
2.5/2
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1970

Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
4.8/26
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1945

La carne e l'anima
0/0
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1950

Pact with the Devil
0/0
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1950

La Ronde
7.3/126
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1943

Document Z-3
0/0
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1969

La donna a una dimensione
0/0
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1948

Leckerbissen
0/0
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1966

A Young World
0/0
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1967

Hell Is Empty
6/1
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1937

The Lie of Nina Petrovna
5.6/6
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1968

The Shoes of the Fisherman
6.7/69
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1935

Destiny Unknown
0/0
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1966

The Mayfly and the Frog
0/0
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1982

Apocalisse di un terremoto
0/0
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1964

The Gallant Musketeer
5.7/6
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1954

Rasputin
5/1
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1956

I pinguini ci guardano
6.5/2
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