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

La Gemma di Sant'Eremo
La Gemma di Sant'Eremo
L'età critica
L'età critica
La donna e l'uomo
La donna e l'uomo
The Fire
The Fire
Jenny
Jenny
Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero
Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero
La Moglie di Claudio
La Moglie di Claudio
A Woman's Story
A Woman's Story
La Biondina
La Biondina

Filmography

1999 Diva Dolorosa
as
1923 La Biondina
as
1923 La donna e l'uomo
as
1923 L' ospite sconosciuta
as
1923 La dama de chez Maxim's
as
1922 La seconda moglie
as
1921 L'età critica
as
1921 Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero
as Margherita
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