Isa Miranda

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Isa Miranda (born July 5, 1905 in Milan , † July 8, 1982 in Rome ; actually Ines Isabella Sampietro ) was an Italian actress .

Life

Isa Miranda, who grew up in poor conditions, earned her living from a young age as a seamstress in a fashion studio and as a factory worker. She later took a typing course and found a job as a secretary for a lawyer. She used the income to finance her acting lessons in her hometown and posed for photos, which she addressed to Roman film studios.

In the early 1930s she went to Rome and received her first small film roles. She celebrated her first major success in 1934 with the film Eine Diva für alle , directed by Max Ophüls . The film also became the basis for her international career. First she worked in UFA productions in Germany and then received a contract with the US American Paramount . She starred alongside Ray Milland in Robert Florey's Hotel Imperial (1939) and was the film partner of George Brent in George Fitzmaurice's crime drama Adventure in Diamonds in 1940 . The attempt to establish them as Italian Greta Garbo or Marlene Dietrich , however, failed.

Miranda played in the film Weisse Göttin in 1941 together with Gustav Diessl and Fosco Giachetti . Directed by her husband Alfredo Guarini . After the Second World War , Miranda returned to Italy from the USA, where she again played in theater and in films. For René Clément's later Oscar- winning film The Walls of Malapaga , she was named Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 1949 . In the years that followed, she became a celebrated European film star and appeared in Italian, French, English and German productions.

From the 1960s, she was mostly featured in television productions, and her 1950s fame was gradually fading. In 1965, Miranda went into financial bankruptcy and moved jewels and her car to avoid jail time. As a result, she financed herself by changing jobs such as theater appearances in London, babysitting and Italian lessons.

Isa Miranda was married to the Italian film producer and director Alfredo Guarini from 1939 until his death in 1981. The marriage remained childless. In addition to her career as an actress, she also worked as a poet, novelist and painter and published her memoirs in the early 1950s .

Isa Miranda died after a long illness in Rome at the age of 77 and found her final resting place on the Cimitero Monumentale al Verano .

Filmography (selection)

Literary works (selection)

  • 1957: Una formica in ginocchio
  • 1958: Una viuzza che porta al mare
  • 1965: La piccinina di Milano
  • 1976: Amore, amore, amore

literature

  • Orio Caldiron, Matilde Hochkofler: Isa Miranda . Gremese, Roma 1978
  • Vittoria Fabretti: Vivo per amore: Enrico Medi, Edith Stein, Giorgio La Pira, Isa Miranda . Edizioni Paoline, Roma 1984

Web links

Commons : Isa Miranda  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Dureau: Dictionnaire mondial des comédiens . Ed. Distar, [Paris] 1984, ISBN 2-905069-00-7
  2. ↑ cf. Italian actress Isa Miranda dies , United Press International, July 9, 1982
  3. ↑ Movie poster. Isa Miranda in White Goddess. Schweizer Film = Film Suisse: official organ of Switzerland, accessed on June 15, 2020 .
  4. ^ Ephraim Katz: The Macmillan international film encyclopedia . Macmillan, New York 1994, ISBN 0-333-61601-4
personal data
SURNAME Miranda, Isa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sampietro, Ines Isabella (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan , Italy
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1982
Place of death Rome , Italy