Vintage Spanish collector's card. Distr. J. Verdaguer, Barcelona. Chocolate Imperiale. Card 2 of 6. Pina Menichelli in La passeggera aka La passagiera (Gero Zambuto Itala Film 1918), released in Spain as La pasajera, and based on a story La passagère by Mme Guy de Chantepleure.
Fascinating and enigmatic Pina Menichelli (1890-1984) was the most bizarre Italian diva of the silent era. With her contorted postures and disdainful expression, she impersonated the striking femme fatale.
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Italian postcard. Photo: Lina Millefleurs in Il padrone delle ferriere/The Owner of the Ironworks (Eugenio Perego, 1919). Collection: Didier Hanson.
Italian vaudeville singer of French origin Lina Millefleurs (?-?), was hired in 1914 by the film company Milano Films and appeared in several silent dramas. In 1921, she finished her film career after nearly 30 films.
Lina Millefleurs was born as Carla Moneta in France or as Carla Tillosi in Italy (the sources differ). Eleonora Duse called her a "young lady with a golden throat". She started her career as a singer in vaudeville. At the end of 1914 she was hired by the Italian film company Milano Films to star in Fiamme nell'ombra/Flames in the shadows (Baldassarre Negroni, 1915) alongside Hesperia. She stayed there for years and acted in a series of pochades such as L'appetito vien mangando/Appetite comes with eating (Eugenio Perego, 1915) and Una donna di spirito/A woman with spirit (Guglielmo Zorzi, 1915). She also starred in dramas, such as Augusto Genina's La farfalla dalle ali d'oro. In the latter film one critic thought her too clueless. Probably on loan by Milano, in 1915 she acted at Sabaudo Film in a series of dramas. In one she was the protagonist, Il Vortice/The Vortex (Salvatore Aversano,1915), based on the play by Noël Coward.
In 1916-1917, Lina Millefleurs was very active at Milano again, mainly under the guidance of Eugenio Perego, and she had a notable part in Il vetturale del Moncenisio by Leopoldo Carlucci. One of her last films at Milano was Tristi amori/Sad loves (Giuseppe Sterni, 1917) . In 1917-1918 she acted in two films by another Milanese company, Mercurio. She received praise for her "naturalness and unaffected, un-diva-like play" in Il Trionfo della morte/Triumph of Death (Domenico Gaido, 1918) based on a novel by Gabriele d'Annunzio. Between 1919 and 1921 she was part of the cast at Itala Film. Here she played Athenaide in the drama Il padrone delle ferriere/The Railway Owner (Eugenio Perego, 1919). Then she moved to Rome where she worked for Tiber Film and Tespi Film. At Tiber Film she had leads in films by Giulio Antamoro and Alfredo De Antoni. In 1921 she closed her film career with a supporting part in the serial La scimitarra del Barbarossa/The scimitar of Barbarossa (Mario Corsai, 1921).
Source: Aldo Bernardini (Cinema muto italiano protagonisti - Italian), Wikipedia (Italian) and IMDb.
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Italian postcard. Photo Henri Manuel. IPA CT Autocromo. Censured at Terni, 10 October 1917. Caption on the back: Poor Shops still do paying Business. Above the shops, posters for the Italian film Il Fuoco (Itala, 1915) by and with Febo Mari, and starring Italian diva Pina Menichelli.
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Spanish collector's card. Card 4 of 6. Chocolate Salas-Sabadell, Barcelona. Pina Menichelli in Gemma di Sant'Eremo (Alfredo Robert, Itala Film 1918), released in Spain as La culpa (The Guilt). Only a fragment of the film has resurfaced. The man may be Gabriel Moreau, who plays Pina's husband, according to Martinelli. Other sources say the husband is played by Edouard Davesnes. See silentsplease.wordpress.com/2015/12/09/1918-fragments-of-...
Fascinating and enigmatic Pina Menichelli (1890-1984) was the most bizarre Italian diva of the silent era. With her contorted postures and disdainful expression, she impersonated the striking femme fatale.
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Spanish postcard. Photo: Itala-Film. Pina Menichelli and Febo Mari in Il Fuoco/The Fire (Giovanni Pastrone, 1915). Collection: Marlene Pilaete. Please note that Menichelli wears her famous owl headwear here.
Fascinating and enigmatic Pina Menichelli (1890-1984) was the most bizarre Italian diva of the silent era. With her contorted postures and disdainful expression, she impersonated the striking femme fatale.
Febo Mari (1881-1939) was an Italian actor, director and writer of the stage, screen and radio, who peaked in the 1910s with films such as Il fuoco (1915), Cenere (1916) and Il fauno (1917).
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