Isa Pola
Acting
Biography
Isa Pola (19 December 1909 – 17 December 1984) was an Italian stage and film actress. She appeared in more than thirty films during her career. One of her earliest screen roles was the female lead in Steel (1933), a realist film set in the steelworking industry. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isa Pola, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: December 10, 1909
Place of Birth: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Known For
L'anonima Roylott
The Children Are Watching Us
In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.
Three Forbidden Stories
While recuperating from their injuries in a hospital, three young women flash back to the events leading up to the catastrophe. Remata (Lia Amando) has spent her entire life trying to overcome a childhood rape. Annamaria (Antonella Lualdi) has recently come out of an unfortunate marriage to a wealthy but insensitive boor. And Gianna (Eleanore Rossi Drago), the daughter of a college professor, has ruined her life with narcotics.
The Song of Love
A young woman takes care of the just-born child of her late mother. Sacrificing her engagement and studies along the way.
Love and Chatter
Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper while Paul is the lawyer Bonelli, vice mayor and head of the opposition. To complicate the story there is the reconstruction of a hermitage destroyed during the war. Reconstruction would take the view of the Paseroni villa, big industrial and political traffic. Bonelli's lawyer, a great speaker, becomes a mayor for the death of his predecessor and is bought by Paseroni, while rejecting the love of Paul and Mary for social differences and why Paul should stay behind Doddy Paseroni. At this point, Paul and Mary flee to kill, just as Bonelli has to hold a talk on the radio for the inauguration of Paseroni's villa ...
Girl of the Golden West
Steel
In the huge steel factories in Terni (Umbria, Italy), two friends: Mario and Pietro, fight for the love of the same girl, Gina. Pietro dies because of a work accident at the factory. The other workers think Mario is responsible for the death of his friend. Mario, who is innocent, is forced to quit, but his love for Gina and his dedication to his job help him out of his crisis.
The Movie Star
A young woman accidentally becomes a movie star.
Mother Earth
The Duke Marco visits to his country side estate after many years absence. His farmers wants him to stay and run the place while his lover wants him to sell it. All while a farmers daughter also enters his life.
Angel in the crowd
Filmography
as Signora Sonia Paseroni
as Tabuia, leader of the handmaidens
as Paola
as Clara
as Nina
as Arianna
as Luciana Dorelli
as Maddalena
as Lisa
as Giorgina Huszti
as Principessita
as Gina
as Afra
as Clara Betti
as Herself
as Daisy
as Anna
as Miryam