Pina Menichelli
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.
Acting
Movie
Cabiria
1914
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The Fire
as Poet
1916
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The Royal Tigress
as Countess Natka
1916
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Jenny
1915
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Cajus Julius Caesar
as Cleopatra
1914
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Diva Dolorosa
1999
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Papà
1915
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The Railway Owner
as Clara de Beaulieu
1919
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A Woman's Story
as Beatrice
1920
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La Moglie di Claudio
as Cesarina Ruper
1918
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Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time
as Wife
1913
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L'età critica
1921
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La donna e l'uomo
1923
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Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero
as Margherita
1921
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Lulu
as Lulù
1914
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For Napoleon and France
as Rina Larive
1914
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La seconda moglie
1922
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La dama de chez Maxim's
1923
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La Gemma di Sant'Eremo
1918
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La Biondina
1923
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L' ospite sconosciuta
1923