Person
Pina Menichelli
Acting · 1890–1984 · Castroreale, Sicily, Italy
Biography
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
The Royal Tigress
Countess Natka
Alla Deriva
Pina
The Fire
Poet
The Passenger
Lucia
Diva Dolorosa
1999
La dama de chez Maxim's
1923
Papà
1915
Cabiria
1914
Lulu
Lulù
La Gemma di Sant'Eremo
1918
Filmography
- 1999Diva Dolorosa
- 1923La Biondina
- 1923La donna e l'uomo
- 1923La dama de chez Maxim's
- 1923L' ospite sconosciuta
- 1922La seconda moglie
- 1921L'età critica
- 1921Il Romanzo di un Giovane PoveroMargherita
- 1920A Woman's StoryBeatrice
- 1919The Railway OwnerClara de Beaulieu
- 1918La Moglie di ClaudioCesarina Ruper
- 1918The PassengerLucia
- 1918La Gemma di Sant'Eremo
- 1916The Royal TigressCountess Natka
- 1916The FirePoet
- 1915Papà
- 1915Alla DerivaPina
- 1915Jenny
- 1914Cajus Julius CaesarCleopatra
- 1914Cabiria
- 1914LuluLulù
- 1914For Napoleon and FranceRina Larive
- 1913Cinema Tragedy at Carnival TimeWife
- —La casa di nessunoVera Dimitriewna
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