Isa Pola Explained

Isa Pola
Birth Date:	19 December 1909
Birth Name:	Maria Luisa Betti di Montesano
Birth Place:	Bologna, Kingdom of Italy
Death Place:	Milan, Italy
Othername:	Maria Luisa Betti di Montesano
Occupation:	Actress
Yearsactive:	1928–1958 (film)

Isa Pola (born Maria Luisa Betti di Montesano; 19 December 1909 – 17 December 1984) was an Italian stage and film actress. 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.^[1]

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)
• The Phantom Musketeer (1952)
• Love and Chatter (1958)

Bibliography

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

Notes and References

1. Landy p. 185