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Pina Menichelli
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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 …
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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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Pina Menichelli's Filmography
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Diva Dolorosa
La Biondina
La dama de chez Maxim's
No Poster
La donna e l'uomo
L' ospite sconosciuta
La seconda moglie
Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero
as Margherita
No Poster
L'età critica
A Woman's Story
as Beatrice
The Railway Owner
as Clara de Beaulieu
La Moglie di Claudio
as Cesarina Ruper
No Poster
The Passenger
as Lucia
No Poster
Una sventatella
La Gemma di Sant'Eremo
The Royal Tigress
as Countess Natka
The Fire
as Poet
Papà
No Poster
Alla Deriva
as Pina
Jenny
No Poster
Cajus Julius Caesar
as Cleopatra
Cabiria
No Poster
Lulu
as Lulù
No Poster
For Napoleon and France
as Rina Larive
Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time
as Wife
No Poster
La casa di nessuno
as Vera Dimitriewna