Pina Menichelli
Born 1890 (age 94) · Castroreale, Sicily, Italy
Appears in 21 titles

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.

Filmography

Cabiria
7.2
Cabiria
1914
The Fire
6.6
The Fire
1916
as Poet
The Royal Tigress
5.6
The Royal Tigress
1916
as Countess Natka
Jenny
5.5
Jenny
1915
4.7
Cajus Julius Caesar
1914
as Cleopatra
Diva Dolorosa
7.0
Diva Dolorosa
1999
Papà
5.9
Papà
1915
The Railway Owner
5.9
The Railway Owner
1919
as Clara de Beaulieu
A Woman's Story
7.0
A Woman's Story
1920
as Beatrice
La Moglie di Claudio
5.8
La Moglie di Claudio
1918
as Cesarina Ruper
Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time
L'età critica
8.0
L'età critica
1921
La donna e l'uomo
10.0
La donna e l'uomo
1923
Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero
9.0
Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero
1921
as Margherita
Lulu
7.0
Lulu
1914
as Lulù
7.0
For Napoleon and France
1914
as Rina Larive
La dama de chez Maxim's
La seconda moglie
10.0
La seconda moglie
1922
La Gemma di Sant'Eremo
La Biondina
La Biondina
1923