Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1890-01-11
Day of Death
1984-08-29
Place of Birth
Castroreale, Sicily, Italy
Pina Menichelli
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 (21)
Diva Dolorosa
1999
La Biondina
1923La donna e l'uomo
1923
L' ospite sconosciuta
1923
La dama de chez Maxim's
1923
La seconda moglie
1922L'età critica
1921
Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero
1921
A Woman's Story
1920
The Railway Owner
1919
La Moglie di Claudio
1918
La Gemma di Sant'Eremo
1918
The Royal Tigress
1916
The Fire
1916
