Isa Miranda
Isa Miranda ( born July 5, 1905 in Milan, † July 8, 1982 in Rome, actually Ines Isabella Sampietro ) was an Italian actress.
Life
She grew up in poverty Isa Miranda earned an early age as a seamstress in a fashion studio and as a factory worker living. Later, she took a course in typing and found a job as a secretary in a lawyer. From the income they financed itself to acting classes in her home town and posed for photos that she addressed to Roman film studios.
Beginning of the 1930s, she went to Rome and received first minor film roles. She celebrated her first major success in 1934 with the film A diva for all directed by Max Ophüls. The film was also the basis for their international career. First, she took part in UFA productions in Germany and then received a contract with the U.S. Paramount. She starred opposite Ray Milland in Robert Florey's Hotel Imperial (1939) and 1940 was the co-star George Brent George Fitzmaurices Crime Drama Adventure in Diamonds. The attempt to establish them as Italian Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, but failed.
After the Second World War, Miranda returned from the U.S. to Italy and played there again in theater and films. For René Clément's later Oscar-winning film The walls of Malapaga she was honored at the 1949 Cannes Film Festival for Best Actress. In the following years she became an acclaimed European film star and appeared in Italian, French, English and German productions.
From the 1960s it was mainly seen in television productions and their fame in the 1950s faded gradually. 1965 saw the Miranda financial bankruptcy and gave jewels and her car to escape a prison sentence. As a result, it was financed with changing work as theater performances in London, babysitting and Italian- hours a livelihood.
Isa Miranda was married from 1939 until his death in 1981 with the Italian film producer and director Alfredo Guarini. The marriage remained childless. In addition to her career as an actress, she also acted as a poet, novelist and painter and early 1950s already published her memoirs.
Isa Miranda passed away after a long illness in Rome at the age of 77 years and found on the Cimitero Monumental al Verano their final resting place.