
Pina Menichelli
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.
Acting (19 movies)

La Gemma di Sant'Eremo
1918

L'età critica
1921

La donna e l'uomo
1923

The Fire
1916

Jenny
1915

Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero
1921

La Moglie di Claudio
1918

A Woman's Story
1920

La Biondina
1923

Cabiria
1914

Lulu
1914

Papà
1915

The Royal Tigress
1916

The Railway Owner
1919

Diva Dolorosa
1999

Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time
1913

L' ospite sconosciuta
1923

La seconda moglie
1922

La dama de chez Maxim's
1923
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