Pina Menichelli

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Castroreale, Sicily, Italy, 1890-01-11

Died: 1984-08-29

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1913	Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time	Wife	55
2	1914	For Napoleon and France	Rina Larive	0
3	1914	Lulu	Lulù	0
4	1914	Cabiria		72
5	1914	Cajus Julius Caesar	Cleopatra	47
6	1915	Jenny		51
7	1915	Papà		59
8	1916	The Fire	Poet	63
9	1916	The Royal Tigress	Countess Natka	55
10	1918	La Gemma di Sant'Eremo		0
11	1918	La Moglie di Claudio	Cesraina Ruper	58
12	1919	The Railway Owner	Clara de Beaulieu	52
13	1920	A Woman's Story	Beatrice	55
14	1921	L'età critica		0
15	1921	Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero	Margherita	0
16	1922	La seconda moglie		0
17	1923	La donna e l'uomo		0
18	1923	La dama de chez Maxim's		0
19	1923	L' ospite sconosciuta		0
20	1923	La Biondina		0
21	1999	Diva Dolorosa		65

Pina Menichelli

Film

Television