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Pina Menichelli
Castroreale, 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 fi…
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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.
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1999
Diva Dolorosa
Movie
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1923
La Biondina
Movie
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1923
La dama de chez Maxim's
Movie
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1923
La donna e l'uomo
Movie
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1923
L' ospite sconosciuta
Movie
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1922
La seconda moglie
Movie
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1921
Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero
Movie Margherita
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1921
L'età critica
Movie
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1920
A Woman's Story
Movie Beatrice
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1919
The Railway Owner
Movie Clara de Beaulieu
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1918
La Moglie di Claudio
Movie Cesarina Ruper
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1918
The Passenger
Movie Lucia
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1918
Una sventatella
Movie
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1918
La Gemma di Sant'Eremo
Movie
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1916
The Royal Tigress
Movie Countess Natka
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1916
The Fire
Movie Poet
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1915
Papà
Movie
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1915
Alla Deriva
Movie Pina
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1915
Jenny
Movie
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1914
Cajus Julius Caesar
Movie Cleopatra
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1914
Cabiria
Movie
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1914
Lulu
Movie Lulù
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1914
For Napoleon and France
Movie Rina Larive
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1913
Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time
Movie Wife
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La casa di nessuno
Movie Vera Dimitriewna
