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Pina Menichelli

Known For
Acting

Known Credits
24

Gender
Female

Birthday
January 11, 1890 (136 years old)

Place of Birth
Castroreale, Sicily, Italy

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

Acting

1999Diva Dolorosaas
1923La Biondinaas
1923L' ospite sconosciutaas
1923La dama de chez Maxim'sas
1923La donna e l'uomoas
1922La seconda moglieas
1921L'età criticaas
1921Il Romanzo di un Giovane Poveroas Margherita
1920A Woman's Storyas Beatrice
1919The Railway Owneras Clara de Beaulieu
1918La Moglie di Claudioas Cesarina Ruper
1918The Passengeras Lucia
1918La Gemma di Sant'Eremoas
1916The Royal Tigressas Countess Natka
1916The Fireas Poet
1915Papàas
1915Alla Derivaas Pina
1915Jennyas
1914Cajus Julius Caesaras Cleopatra
1914Cabiriaas
1914Luluas Lulù
1914For Napoleon and Franceas Rina Larive
1913Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Timeas Wife
La casa di nessunoas Vera Dimitriewna

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