Pina Menichelli
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.
Cabiria
as uncreditedYoung Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be...
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Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time
as WifeAntonio is jealous of his wife Clara and follows her everywhere; one day he sees her walking...
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Diva Dolorosa
as uncreditedIn this mesmerizing collage of silent Italian melodrama, found-footage filmmaker Peter Delpeut...
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The Railway Owner
as Clara de BeaulieuFilippo Derblay, a young man of humble birth, became, thanks to his job, the owner of the...
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The Fire
as PoetA film based on Gabriele D'Annunzio's novel The Flame. Pina Menichelli plays a vamp who ruins a...
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La Moglie di Claudio
as Cesraina RuperClaudio is married to Cesarina, a frivolous and unfaithful woman. After the death of their only...
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The Royal Tigress
as Countess Natka"Tigre Reale" (1916) was the film that consolidated Frau Menichelli's stardom, a film more than...
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Papà
as uncreditedAn unknown Menichelli, a young and lively beauty, is desired by two stars of the Italian scene:...
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A Woman's Story
as BeatriceThe story of the film «La storia di una donna», in which Pina Menichelli played the main role,...
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Jenny
as uncreditedA romance story about Jenny and the men that love her.
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Lulu
as LulùA dancer lives by being held as the lover on duty, until a young man falls in love with her. His...
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La Gemma di Sant'Eremo
as uncreditedThe film is a 35 meters long fragment, the remainder of a strongly decayed print, enough though...
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