Pina Menichelli
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.
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- 1999 · Diva Dolorosa as
- 1923 · La Biondina as
- 1923 · La dama de chez Maxim's as
- 1923 · La donna e l'uomo as
- 1923 · L' ospite sconosciuta as
- 1922 · La seconda moglie as
- 1921 · Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero as Margherita
- 1921 · L'età critica as
- 1920 · A Woman's Story as Beatrice
- 1919 · The Railway Owner as Clara de Beaulieu
- 1918 · La Moglie di Claudio as Cesraina Ruper
- 1918 · La Gemma di Sant'Eremo as
- 1916 · The Royal Tigress as Countess Natka
- 1916 · The Fire as Poet
- 1915 · Papà as
- 1915 · Jenny as
- 1914 · Cajus Julius Caesar as Cleopatra
- 1914 · Cabiria as
- 1914 · Lulu as Lulù
- 1914 · For Napoleon and France as Rina Larive
- 1913 · Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time as Wife