#eugenio perego

[pariswasawoman]

Jeanne Roques (23 February 1889 – 11 December 1957), known professionally as Musidora, was a French actress, film director, and writer. She is best known for her acting in silent films, and rose to public attention for roles in the Louis Feuillade serials Les Vampires as Irma Vep and in Judex as Marie Verdier. Born Jeanne Roques to music composer and theorist of socialism Jacques Roques and painter and feminist Adèle Porchez, Musidora began her career in the arts at an early age, writing her first novel at the age of fifteen and acting on the stage with the likes of Colette, one of her lifelong friends. During the very early years of French cinema Musidora began a professional collaboration with the highly successful French film director Louis Feuillade. She made her film debut in Les miseres de l'aiguille, directed by Raphael Clamour, in January 1914. The film highlights the problems of the urban women in the French working-class, and presents a new representation of the female even by the working-class movement in the early 20th century in France. Adopting the moniker of Musidora (Greek for "gift of the muses"), after the heroine in Théophile Gautier's novel Fortunio, and affecting a unique vamp persona that would be popularized in the United States by actress Theda Bara at about the same time, Musidora soon found a foothold in the nascent medium of moving pictures. With her heavily kohled dark eyes, somewhat sinister make-up, pale skin and exotic wardrobes, Musidora quickly became a highly popular and instantly recognizable presence of European cinema. Beginning in 1915, Musidora began appearing in the successful Feuillade-directed serial Les Vampires as Irma Vep (an anagram of "vampire"), a cabaret singer, opposite Édouard Mathé. Contrary to the title, Les Vampires was not actually about vampires, but about a criminal-gang-run-secret-society inspired by the exploits of the real-life Bonnot Gang. Vep, besides playing a leading role in the Vampires' crimes, also spends two episodes under the hypnotic control of Moreno, a rival criminal who makes her his lover and induces her to assassinate the Grand Vampire. The series was an immediate success with French cinema-goers and ran in 10 installments until 1916. After the Les Vampires serial, Musidora starred as adventuress, Diana Monti (aka governess "Marie Verdier") in Judex, another popular Feuillade serial filmed in 1916 but delayed for release until 1917. Though not intended to be avant-garde, Les Vampires and Judex were lauded by Louis Aragon and Andre Breton in the 1920s for the films' elements of surprise, fantasy/science fiction, unexpected juxtapositions and visual non sequiturs. Filmmakers Fritz Lang, Luis Buñuel, Georges Franju, Alain Resnais, and Olivier Assayas have cited Les Vampires and Judex as influencing them in their desires to become directors. At a time when many women in the film industry were relegated to acting, Musidora achieved a degree of success as a producer and director. Musidora became a film producer and director under the tutelage of her mentor, Louis Feuillade. Between the late 1910s and early 1920s, she directed ten films, all of which are lost with the exception of two: 1922's Soleil et Ombre and 1924's La Terre des Taureaux, both of which were filmed in Spain. In Italy, she produced and directed La Flamme Cachee based on the work of her friend Colette. In the same year, she co-wrote (with Colette) and co-directed (with Eugenio Perego) La vagabonda based on Colette's novel of the same name. After her career as an actress faded, she focused on writing and producing. Her last film was an homage to her mentor Feuillade titled La Magique Image in 1950, which she both directed and starred in. Late in her life, she would occasionally work in the ticket booth of the Cinémathèque Française—few patrons realized that the older woman in the foyer might be starring in the film they were watching. Musidora died in Paris in 1957 and was buried in the Cimetière de Bois-le-Roi.

#musidora #jeanne roques

[draculasdaughter]

Pina Menichelli in Il padrone delle ferriere (Eugenio Perego, 1919)

#luv <3 #pina menichelli #il padrone delle ferriere #eugenio perego #silent #screencaps #mine

[mote-historie]

Italian silent film star and diva, Pina Menichelli, Il giardino incantato, directed by Eugenio Perego, 1918. 

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Giuseppa Iolanda Menichelli (1890-1984), known as Pina Menichelli, was an Italian actress and silent film star. After a career in theatre and a series of small film roles, Pina 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. Pina Menichelli became a global star, and one of the most appreciated actresses in Italian cinema, before her retirement in 1924, aged 34. (x)

#pina menichelli #1918 #eugenio perego #il giardino incantato #Il giardino delle voluttà #italian cinema #silent film #silent cinema #silent era #silent movies #menichelli #giuseppa iolanda menichelli #decadent eroticism #eroticism #global star #italian film star #silent drama

[thinkingimages]

Pina Menichelli in « Storia di una donna » directed by Eugenio Perego 1920

#Pina Menichelli #Storia di una donna #Eugenio Perego #1920

[corallorosso]

12 dicembre 1969 Carlo Garavagli 67 anni Gerolamo Papetti 78 anni Mario Pasi 50 anni Giulio China 57 anni Eugenio Corsini 65 anni Carlo Gaiani 57 anni Luigi Perego 69 anni Oreste Sangalli 49 anni Pietro Dendena 45 anni Carlo Silva 71 anni Paolo Gerli 77 anni Luigi Meloni 57 anni Giovanni Arnoldi 42 anni Attilio Valè 52 anni Calogero Galatiolo 77 anni Angelo Scaglia 61 anni Vittorio Mocchi 33 anni 15 dicembre 1969 Giuseppe Pinelli 41 anni Una strage fascista. (Giancarlo Raimondo Due)

[chrryblssmninja]

Pina Menichelli in Il padrone delle ferriere (1919) by Truus, Bob & Jan too! Via Flickr: Italian postcard by Vettori, Bologna, no. 492. Photo: publicity still for Il padrone delle ferriere/The Owner of the Ironworks (Eugenio Perego, 1919). Pina Menichelli in Il padrone delle ferriere (1919), directed by Eugenio Perego. The other actress is Lina Millefleurs.

#silent film #pina menichelli #Lina Millefleurs #they had great chemistry (tho actually Pina had chemistry w EVERYONE around her character's age) so u could hope the pairings would end up.. #...different...

[silentfilmgallery]

#filmscomparsi Pina Menichelli e Luigi Serventi in una scena del film "Il giardino della voluttà"cinedramma in 4 atti di G. M. Viti, messa in scena di Eugenio Perego, operatore Cufaro, scenografia Charles Doudelle, produzione Itala Film - Torino 1918

#pina menichelli #luigi serventi #eugenio perego #itala film #1918 #cinema muto #lostfilm #filmscomparsi

[draculasdaughter]

Pina Menichelli in Il padrone delle ferriere (Eugenio Perego, 1919)

#heart eeeyes #pina menichelli #il padrone delle ferriere #eugenio perego #silent #screencaps #mine

[di-kot-o-me]

Pina Menichelli in Storia di una donna, directed by Eugenio Perego, 1920

#pina menichelli #storis di una donna #eugenio perego