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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 11, 1890
Died
August 29, 1984
Place of Birth
Castroreale, Sicily, Italy
Also Known As
- Giuseppa Iolanda Menichelli
Pina Menichelli
0.1 Popularity
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.
Known For
Credits
Diva Dolorosa
1999
6.5
La Biondina
1923
0.0
L' ospite sconosciuta
1923
0.0
La dama de chez Maxim's
1923
0.0
La donna e l'uomo
1923
0.0
La seconda moglie
1922
0.0
L'età critica
1921
0.0
Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero
as Margherita
1921
0.0
A Woman's Story
as Beatrice
1920
5.5
The Railway Owner
as Clara de Beaulieu
1919
5.2
La Moglie di Claudio
as Cesarina Ruper
1918
5.8
La Gemma di Sant'Eremo
1918
0.0
The Royal Tigress
as Countess Natka
1916
5.6
The Fire
as Poet
1916
6.3
Papà
1915
5.9
Jenny
1915
5.1
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Cajus Julius Caesar
as Cleopatra
1914
4.7
Cabiria
1914
7.2
Lulu
as Lulù
1914
0.0
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For Napoleon and France
as Rina Larive
1914
0.0
Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time
as Wife
1913
5.5