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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Cabiria (1914)
2. The Fire (1916) — Poet
3. The Royal Tigress (1916) — Countess Natka
4. Jenny (1915)
5. Cajus Julius Caesar (1914) — Cleopatra
6. Diva Dolorosa (1999)
7. Papà (1915)
8. The Railway Owner (1919) — Clara de Beaulieu
9. A Woman's Story (1920) — Beatrice
10. La Moglie di Claudio (1918) — Cesarina Ruper
11. Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time (1913) — Wife
12. L'età critica (1921)
13. La donna e l'uomo (1923)
14. Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero (1921) — Margherita
15. Lulu (1914) — Lulù
16. For Napoleon and France (1914) — Rina Larive
17. La dama de chez Maxim's (1923)
18. La seconda moglie (1922)
19. La Gemma di Sant'Eremo (1918)
20. La Biondina (1923)
21. L' ospite sconosciuta (1923)
22. The Passenger (1918) — Lucia
23. Alla Deriva (1915) — Pina
24. La casa di nessuno — Vera Dimitriewna