Pina Menichelli

Known for ActingBorn 1890-01-11Died 1984-08-29Castroreale, Sicily, Italy

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.Read more

Movies & web series

La donna e l'uomo

La seconda moglie

La dama de chez Maxim's

Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero

L'età critica

Diva Dolorosa

Cabiria

A Woman's Story

Lulu

For Napoleon and France

The Fire

The Railway Owner

Papà

La Moglie di Claudio

The Royal Tigress

Jenny

Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time

Cajus Julius Caesar

La Biondina

L' ospite sconosciuta

La Gemma di Sant'Eremo