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    Pina Menichelli

    1890-01-11 (134 years old) in 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 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.

    Movies

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    Diva Dolorosa
    65 %|Oct 21, 1999
    Documentary
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    La Biondina
    0 %|Dec 1, 1923
    Drama
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    La donna e l'uomo
    0 %|Jan 1, 1923
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    L' ospite sconosciuta
    0 %|Jan 1, 1923
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    La seconda moglie
    0 %|Jan 1, 1922
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    L'età critica
    0 %|Jan 1, 1921
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    A Woman's Story
    55 %|Jan 15, 1920
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    The Railway Owner
    52 %|Feb 25, 1919
    Drama
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    La Moglie di Claudio
    58 %|Dec 11, 1918
    Drama, History
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    La Gemma di Sant'Eremo
    0 %|Jan 1, 1918
    Romance
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    The Royal Tigress
    55 %|Nov 9, 1916
    Drama
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    The Fire
    63 %|Apr 16, 1916
    Drama
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    Papà
    59 %|Apr 14, 1915
    Romance
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    Jenny
    51 %|Jan 14, 1915
    Drama
    actor
    Cajus Julius Caesar
    47 %|Nov 13, 1914
    Drama, History, War
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    Cabiria
    72 %|Jun 1, 1914
    Drama, History
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    Lulu
    0 %|Apr 17, 1914
    Drama
    actor
    For Napoleon and France
    0 %|Mar 1, 1914
    History, Drama
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    Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time
    55 %|Jun 10, 1913
    Comedy

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