Pina Menichelli
Born: 1890-01-11 in Castroreale, Sicily, Italy
Died: 1984-08-29
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1999
1922
1921
- Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero as Margherita
- L'età critica
1920
- A Woman's Story as Beatrice
1919
- The Railway Owner as Clara de Beaulieu
1918
- The Passenger as Lucia
- La Gemma di Sant'Eremo
- La Moglie di Claudio as Cesarina Ruper
1916
- The Royal Tigress as Countess Natka
- The Fire as Poet
1915
- Papà
- Alla Deriva as Pina
- Jenny
1914
- Cabiria
- Lulu as Lulù
- For Napoleon and France as Rina Larive
- Cajus Julius Caesar as Cleopatra
1913
- Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time as Wife