Pina Menichelli [1189846] Gender: Female Popularity: 0.1662 Birthplace: Castroreale, Sicily, Italy Birthday: 1890-01-11 Deathday: 1984-08-29 Age: 94 years Movies: 21 Links: Homepage, IMDB Biography: 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. Diva Dolorosa1999-10-21 La Biondina1923-12-01 La donna e l'uom1923-01-01 La dama de chez 1923-01-01 L' ospite sconos1923-01-01 La seconda mogli1922-01-01 Il Romanzo di un1921-01-01 L'età critica1921-01-01 A Woman's Story1920-01-15 The Railway Owne1919-02-25 La Moglie di Cla1918-12-11 La Gemma di Sant1918-01-01 The Royal Tigres1916-11-09 The Fire1916-04-16 Papà1915-04-14 Jenny1915-01-14 Cajus Julius Cae1914-11-13 Lulu1914-04-17 Cabiria1914-06-01 For Napoleon and1914-03-01 Cinema Tragedy a1913-06-10