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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 (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...
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The AvengersSeries • 1961
MaigretSeries • 1960
Sergeant CorkSeries • 1963
EspionageSeries • 1963
The Night PorterMovie • 1974
A Bay of BloodMovie • 1971
BambinaMovie • 1974
SummertimeMovie • 1955
The Yellow Rolls-RoyceMovie • 1964
The Shoes of the FishermanMovie • 1968
Dorian GrayMovie • 1970
The Walls of MalapagaMovie • 1949
La RondeMovie • 1950
CorruptionMovie • 1963
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of HannibalMovie • 1937
Everybody's WomanMovie • 1934
We, the WomenMovie • 1953
The Man from NowhereMovie • 1937
The Dollars Are Coming!Movie • 1957
Roy Colt and Winchester JackMovie • 1970
AbandonedMovie • 1955