Pina Menichelli
- Recitazione
- 11 gennaio 1890 · Castroreale, Sicily, Italy
- 29 agosto 1984
Biografia
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.
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Filmografia
- Diva Dolorosa
- La Biondina
- La donna e l'uomo
- La dama de chez Maxim's
- L' ospite sconosciuta
- La seconda moglie
- L'età critica
- Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero · Margherita
- La storia di una donna · Beatrice
- Il padrone delle ferriere · Clara de Beaulieu
- La Moglie di Claudio · Cesarina Ruper
- La passaggera · Lucia
- La Gemma di Sant'Eremo
- Una sventatella
- Tigre reale · Countess Natka
- Il fuoco · Poet
- Papà
- Alla Deriva · Pina
- Per amore di Jenny
- Cajus Julius Caesar · Cleopatra
- Cabiria
- Lulu · Lulù
- Scuola d'eroi · Rina Larive
- Una tragedia al cinematografo · Wife
- La casa di nessuno · Vera Dimitriewna