Pina Menichelli
Actor
- Born
- January 11, 1890 · Castroreale, Sicily, Italy
- Died
- August 29, 1984 (age 94)
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
Cabiria
June 1, 1914
The Fire
April 16, 1916
The Royal Tigress
November 9, 1916
Jenny
January 14, 1915
Diva Dolorosa
October 21, 1999
Papà
April 14, 1915
The Railway Owner
February 25, 1919
A Woman's Story
January 15, 1920
Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time
June 10, 1913
La Moglie di Claudio
December 11, 1918
Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero
January 1, 1921
La seconda moglie
January 1, 1922
Acting25
- 1999Diva Dolorosa
- 1923La Biondina
- 1923La donna e l'uomo
- 1923L' ospite sconosciuta
- 1923La dama de chez Maxim's
- 1922La seconda moglie
- 1921L'età critica
- 1921Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero as Margherita
- 1920A Woman's Story as Beatrice
- 1919The Railway Owner as Clara de Beaulieu
- 1918La Moglie di Claudio as Cesarina Ruper