Isa Miranda

ISA MIRANDA d1982. Italian film actress often billed as the "Italian Marlene Dietrich", she played femme fatale roles in films such as Hotel Imperial (1939) and Adventure in Diamonds (1940). She returned to Italy soon after the outbreak of WW2 and continued to act on 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). Her career took her to France, Germany and Britain where she frequently appeared in TV films including ; The Avengers. Other notable film appearances included ; Siamo Donne (1953) / Summertime (1955) / Gli Sbandati (1955) / The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964) / The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) and Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter (1974)