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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

Film

No.YearTitleRoleVote Average
11913Wife55
21914Rina Larive0
31914Lulù0
4191472
51914Cleopatra47
6191551
7191559
81916Poet63
91916Countess Natka55
1019180
111918Cesraina Ruper58
121919Clara de Beaulieu52
131920Beatrice55
1419210
151921Margherita0
1619220
1719230
1819230
1919230
2019230
21199965

Television

No.YearTitleRoleVote Average
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