Pina Menichelli
Actor
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.
Filmography
The Royal Tigress
as Countess Natka 1916
The Fire
as Poet 1916
Jenny
1915
Cajus Julius Caesar
as Cleopatra 1914
Papà
1915
Diva Dolorosa
1999
The Railway Owner
as Clara de Beaulieu 1919
La Moglie di Claudio
as Cesarina Ruper 1918
A Woman's Story
as Beatrice 1920
Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time
as Wife 1913
La Gemma di Sant'Eremo
1918
L'età critica
1921
La donna e l'uomo
1923
Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero
as Margherita 1921
La Biondina
1923
Lulu
as Lulù 1914