Isa Pola

Isa Pola
Born	Maria Luisa Betti di Montesano 19 December 1909 Bologna, Emilia-Romagna Italy
Died	17 December 1984 (1984-12-18) (aged 74) Milan, Lombardy Italy
Other names	Maria Luisa Betti di Montesano
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1928–1958 (film)

Isa Pola (19 December 1909 – 17 December 1984) was an Italian stage and film actress.

Born Maria Luisa Betti di Montesano, she appeared in more than 30 films during her career. An early screen role was the female lead in Steel (1933), a realist film set in the steelworking industry.

Selected filmography

• Miryam (1929)
• The Song of Love (1930)
• Mother Earth (1931)
• The Opera Singer (1932)
• The Last Adventure (1932)
• La Wally (1932)
• The Telephone Operator (1932)
• Steel (1933)
• Ragazzo (1934)
• Creatures of the Night (1934)
• The Anonymous Roylott (1936)
• It Was I! (1937)
• The Widow (1939)
• Lucrezia Borgia (1940)
• Bridge of Glass (1940)
• Girl of the Golden West (1942)
• The Za-Bum Circus (1944)
• The Children Are Watching Us (1944)
• Fury (1947)
• Angelo tra la folla (1950)
• Margaret of Cortona (1950)
• Shadows on the Grand Canal (1951)
• The Rival of the Empress (1951)
• Three Forbidden Stories (1952)
• The Queen of Sheba (1952)
• Il moschettiere fantasma (1952)
• Love and Chatter (1958)

External links

• Isa Pola at IMDb

Bibliography

• Landy, Marcia. The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality in the Italian Cinema, 1930-1943. SUNY Press, 2008.