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Pina Menichelli
Actor
Born January 11, 1890Died August 29, 1984 (94 years)
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
| 1999 | |
| 1953 | La valigia dei sogni · as Cast |
| 1920 | Il romanzo di un giovane povero · as Margherita |
| 1916 | Tigre reale · as Countess Natka |
| 1916 | The Fire · as Poet |
| 1915 | Flower of Evil · as Cast |
| 1914 | Julius Caesar · as Cleopatra |
| 1914 | |
| 1914 | When Youth Meets Youth · as Cast |
| 1913 | Una tragedia al cinematografo · as Wife |
| 1913 | House of Mystery · as Cast |