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.

La Gemma di Sant'Eremo

L'età critica

La donna e l'uomo

The Fire

Jenny

Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero

La Moglie di Claudio

A Woman's Story

La Biondina
Cajus Julius Caesar

Cabiria

Lulu

Papà
For Napoleon and France

The Royal Tigress

The Railway Owner

Diva Dolorosa

Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time

La dama de chez Maxim's

L' ospite sconosciuta
