Hollywood Classics

  ======================================================================================== Saturday 29, November 2025, 05:30. Miranda in 1950s Born Ines Isabella Sampietro 5 July 1905 Milan, Kingdom of Italy Died 8 July 1982 (aged 77) Rome, Italy Occupation Actress Years active 1933–1978 Spouse Alfredo Guarini (m. 1939; died 1981)​ Introduction: Isa Miranda (born Ines Isabella Sampietro; 5 July 1905 – 8 July 1982) was an Italian actress with an international film career. Biography: Miranda was born Ines Isabella Sampietro in Milan, the daughter of a street car conductor. When she was 10 years old, she began working as an errand girl for a dressmaker. She later had jobs in a box factory and a handbag factory. When she was 15, she became a model, a job that provided enough income for her to learn bookkeeping and typing in night school. She worked as a typist while attending the Accademia dei Filodrammatici in Milan and trained as a stage actress. She went on to play bit par...