Pina Menichelli
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 11, 1890
- Place of birth
- Castroreale, Sicily, Italy
- Died
- August 29, 1984
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 with Pina Menichelli
- Cabiria 1914 · ★ 7.2
- The Fire 1916 · ★ 6.6
- The Royal Tigress 1916 · ★ 5.6
- Jenny 1915 · ★ 5.5
- Cajus Julius Caesar 1914 · ★ 5.0
- Diva Dolorosa 1999 · ★ 7.0
- Papà 1915 · ★ 5.9
- The Railway Owner 1919 · ★ 5.9
- A Woman's Story 1920 · ★ 7.0
- Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time 1913 · ★ 5.8
- La Moglie di Claudio 1918 · ★ 5.8
- L'età critica 1921 · ★ 8.0
- La donna e l'uomo 1923 · ★ 10.0
- Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero 1921 · ★ 9.0
- Lulu 1914 · ★ 7.0
- For Napoleon and France 1914 · ★ 7.0
- La seconda moglie 1922 · ★ 10.0
- La dama de chez Maxim's 1923 · ★ 9.0
- La Gemma di Sant'Eremo 1918
- La Biondina 1923
- L' ospite sconosciuta 1923
- The Passenger 1918
- Alla Deriva 1915
- Una sventatella 1918