Pina Menichelli
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Giuseppa Iolanda Menichelli (10 January 1890 – 29 August 1984), known professionally as Pina Menichelli, was an Italian actress. After a career in theatre and a series of small film roles, Menichelli was launched as a film star when Giovanni Pastrone gave her the lead role in The Fire (1916). Over the next nine years, Menichelli made a series of films, often trading on her image as a diva and on her passionate, decadent eroticism. Menichelli became a global star, and one of the most appreciated actresses in Italian cinema, before her retirement in 1924, aged 34. Since her death, restorations of Menichelli's surviving films have been shown at important film festivals, and her filmography has been re-assembled and re-evaluated by film historians.
Known for
Credits
Alla Deriva (1915)
as Pina
Diva Dolorosa (1999)
Actor
La dama de chez Maxim's (1923)
Actor
Una sventatella (1918)
Actor
Cabiria (1914)
Actor
The Royal Tigress (1916)
as Countess Natka
Papà (1915)
Actor
The Fire (1916)
as Poet
The Passenger (1918)
as Lucia
Lulu (1914)
as Lulù
Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time (1913)
as Wife
La Gemma di Sant'Eremo (1918)
Actor
La casa di nessuno (—)
as Vera Dimitriewna
For Napoleon and France (1914)
as Rina Larive
Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero (1921)
as Margherita
La Moglie di Claudio (1918)
as Cesarina Ruper
Cajus Julius Caesar (1914)
as Cleopatra
A Woman's Story (1920)
as Beatrice
Jenny (1915)
Actor
La donna e l'uomo (1923)
Actor
The Railway Owner (1919)
as Clara de Beaulieu
La Biondina (1923)
Actor
L' ospite sconosciuta (1923)
Actor
La seconda moglie (1922)
Actor
L'età critica (1921)
Actor