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.
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Cabiria
1914 // MOVIE
The Royal Tigress
1916 // MOVIE
The Fire
1916 // MOVIE
Jenny
1915 // MOVIE
Cajus Julius Caesar
1914 // MOVIE
Papà
1915 // MOVIE
Diva Dolorosa
1999 // MOVIE
The Railway Owner
1919 // MOVIE
La Moglie di Claudio
1918 // MOVIE
A Woman's Story
1920 // MOVIE
Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time
1913 // MOVIE
La Gemma di Sant'Eremo
1918 // MOVIE
L'età critica
1921 // MOVIE
La donna e l'uomo
1923 // MOVIE
Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero
1921 // MOVIE