Pina Menichelli

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.

  • Title : Pina Menichelli
  • Popularity : 0.464
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1890-01-11
  • Place of Birth : Castroreale, Sicily, Italy
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  • Also Known As : Giuseppa Iolanda Menichelli
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Pina Menichelli Movies

  • 1918
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    La Gemma di Sant'Eremo

    La Gemma di Sant'Eremo

    1 1918 HD

    The film is a 35 meters long fragment, the remainder of a strongly decayed print, enough though to let us recognize the diva Pina Menichelli, here...

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  • 1921
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    L'età critica

    L'età critica

    1 1921 HD

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  • 1923
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    La donna e l'uomo

    La donna e l'uomo

    1 1923 HD

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  • 1916
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    The Fire

    The Fire

    6.3 1916 HD

    A film based on Gabriele D'Annunzio's novel The Flame. Pina Menichelli plays a vamp who ruins a painter's life just for the fun of it.

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  • 1915
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    Jenny

    Jenny

    5.1 1915 HD

    A romance story about Jenny and the men that love her.

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  • 1921
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    Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero

    Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero

    1 1921 HD

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  • 1918
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    La Moglie di Claudio

    La Moglie di Claudio

    5.8 1918 HD

    Claudio is married to Cesarina, a frivolous and unfaithful woman. After the death of their only son their marriage is cold. While his wife lives her...

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  • 1920
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    A Woman's Story

    A Woman's Story

    5.5 1920 HD

    The story of the film «La storia di una donna», in which Pina Menichelli played the main role, is typical for «divas-films»...

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  • 1923
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    La Biondina

    La Biondina

    1 1923 HD

    Italian Silent Film

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  • 1914
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    Cabiria

    Cabiria

    7.2 1914 HD

    Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrificed to Moloch, Cabiria is rescued by Fulvius...

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  • 1914
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    Cajus Julius Caesar

    Cajus Julius Caesar

    4.7 1914 HD

    A colossal epic film like this that tries to depict the life and glory of Julius Caesar, must have a variety of scenery appropriate to the film's...

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  • 1914
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    Lulu

    Lulu

    1 1914 HD

    A dancer lives by being held as the lover on duty, until a young man falls in love with her. His life is made up of lies and he will pretend to be...

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  • 1915
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    Papà

    Papà

    5.9 1915 HD

    An unknown Menichelli, a young and lively beauty, is desired by two stars of the Italian scene: Ruggero Ruggeri and Amleto Novelli. This breezy story...

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  • 1914
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    For Napoleon and France

    For Napoleon and France

    1 1914 HD

    Two siblings lose their parents amidst turmoil in revolutionary France and are adopted by a peasant family. Once grown up, the older brother enlists...

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  • 1916
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    The Royal Tigress

    The Royal Tigress

    5.5 1916 HD

    "Tigre Reale" (1916) was the film that consolidated Frau Menichelli's stardom, a film more than suitable for her performing skills and silent...

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  • 1919
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    The Railway Owner

    The Railway Owner

    5.2 1919 HD

    Filippo Derblay, a young man of humble birth, became, thanks to his job, the owner of the ironworks. He is secretly in love with Clara, the daughter...

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  • 1999
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    Diva Dolorosa

    Diva Dolorosa

    6.5 1999 HD

    In this mesmerizing collage of silent Italian melodrama, found-footage filmmaker Peter Delpeut (Lyrical Nitrate) affectionately captures the spirit...

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  • 1913
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    Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time

    Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time

    5.5 1913 HD

    Antonio is jealous of his wife Clara and follows her everywhere; one day he sees her walking with a man on the street. He immediately becomes...

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  • 1923
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    L' ospite sconosciuta

    L' ospite sconosciuta

    1 1923 HD

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  • 1922
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    La seconda moglie

    La seconda moglie

    1 1922 HD

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  • 1923
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    La dama de chez Maxim's

    La dama de chez Maxim's

    1 1923 HD

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