The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-17
SveIte, AmiabIe Queen of Italian Cinema
 ]: Already Is Making Conquests In Hollywood
Tsa Miranda Gives First FilnlIand Interview to
 Paul Harrison
BY PAUL HARRISON
 NEA Service Staff Correspondent

NEA Service Stam COfreSpOnuenG Hollywood - Another immigrant girl, with all her portable belong ings done up in 28 pieces of luggage, has come to the Land of Oppor- tunity to labor in factory where they make movies.
 Her name is Inez Sanpietro, but she's on the Paramount payroll as Isa Miranda.
 z If you have been to Italy lately you'll know that 1sa Miranda Is that country's greatest screen star. Or was.
 z I can't imagine why Mussolini ever allowed her to leave. Surely he doesn't think we're going to send him Shirley Temple.
 Anyway Signorina Miranda is here, along with her plump man. ager and her plump poodle. None of the three understands more than 6 very little English. The poodle - named Chico, although it looks like Harpo-speaks with the least accent.
 The actress reminds you of an animate and amiable Marlene Dietrich. She has nice eyes and golden hair and the sort of lean, mobile face that photographs like a million dollars Cor 20000,000 lira, at the current rate of ex- change).
 Her figure is slim, perhaps too slim. Apparently she has been told that Hollywood people sub siSt solely on lettuce and fan mail, because she still is dieting Vigorously and speaks wistfulIy of her skill at cooking spaghetti.
 Her manager bristles at the mere mention of spaghetti, and growls something which you know is a warning that she musn't touch any.
 Hard Climb to Fame
 T was the first Hollywood corre- spondent to interview Miss Mi- randa, and 8 couple of years from now may be looking back with astonishment on the experience.
 She was friendly and gracious and very eager to please, and was impatient only with herself be- cause she did not speak better the EnHlees. Frequently we'd look up wolds in an English-Italian dic- tiorary to make ourselves under stood.
 If training and background have anything to do with it, the star will not soon go high-hat in Hol- lywood. She has had 8 tough time of 1t.
 r Her father was a street car con- ductor in Milan. She had to go to work at 10, as errand girl for a dressmaker. The job paid one lira S{5c) a day. Later she worked in a box factory and a handbag fac- tory. At IS she was model.
 Modelling was better. She saved enough to go to night school and learn typing and bookkeeping. In 1882, as head typist in the office of a. publishing company, she saved enough to attend the Academy of Dramatic Art Her work there won her an acting contract, but at miserablbe pay.
 Meanwhile she had sent some of her photographs to film companies Sh began to get extra parts at 54 lira day, and soon won the leading role in picture called Darkness"
 <. About that time, in 1884, na- ton wide searchc was begun for perfect type of modern Italian beauty to appear in "Everybodys Wife" There were 1000 appli- cants. Ira Miranda won the part. No Night Clubber
 "Everybody's Wife" was a fine picture, with fine direction. The actress zoomed to prominence. All Italy talked of her. She went from one success to another, among them being Red Passport" about an efnigrant girl who went to America She learned German and made two pictures in Berlin. She learned French, and her last film, made in Paris, co-starred her with Fernand Gravel.
 Two months ago." she said, T speak no Englees. In two month after today you come to see me and will spoke Englees very we'll"
 T believe her. So does Para mount, which will see that she studies diligently for a while be-