Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 11, 1890
Died
Aug 29, 1984
Place of Birth
Castroreale, Sicily, Italy
Credits
25 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Diva Dolorosa
La Biondina
La dama de chez Maxim's
La donna e l'uomo
L' ospite sconosciuta
La seconda moglie
Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero
Margherita
L'età critica
A Woman's Story
Beatrice
The Railway Owner
Clara de Beaulieu
La Moglie di Claudio
Cesarina Ruper
The Passenger
Lucia
Una sventatella
La Gemma di Sant'Eremo
The Royal Tigress
Countess Natka
The Fire
Poet
Papà
Alla Deriva
Pina
Jenny
Cajus Julius Caesar
Cleopatra
Cabiria
Lulu
Lulù
For Napoleon and France
Rina Larive
Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time
Wife
La casa di nessuno
Vera Dimitriewna