Isa Miranda

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 Everybodys 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 Mirandas 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 Cléments The Walls of Malapaga which won an Academy Award for the most outstanding foreign language film of 1950 and for Miranda the Palme dOr 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 RollsRoyce 1964 The Shoes of the Fisherman 1968 and Liliana Cavanis 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia