Valentina Frascaroli

"Tigre Reale" (1916) was the film that consolidated Menichelli's stardom, a film more than suitable for her performing skills and silent idiosyncrasy that any silent diva would kill to star in... In "Tigre Reale", Menichelli performs the part of Frau Natka, a Russian countess with a troublesome past and an uncertain future. She was married to a revolutionary and the matrimony ended in tragedy. She likes to flirt but due to her traumatic sentimental past she doesn't allow herself attachments. (imdb)

"The War and the Dream of Momi" was a patriotic war film directed by Giovanni Pastrone. Segundo de Chomón was responcible for the animation effects. (imdb)

For many years this early science fiction film from Italy was regarded as lost. Some reels of the Portuguese release version were discovered in Brazil. The discovered film amounted to 740 meters which is believed to be approximately 40% of the complete film. Luckily, the discovered footage came from the later part of the film and included some of the special effects and the battle of the two robots in the Opera House. By mid-2006, this is the only footage known to survive. (imdb)

Cretinetti goes hunting with his friends, stalking the ferocious Chicken, and produces a typical Italian slapstick, which makes your typical Keystone slapstick look like tea time at the Ritz. Raw, bone-breaking slapstick. (imdb)

Silent film featuring the strongman, Maciste, as a soldier of awesome strength and fortitude fighting for the Italian forces against the Austrians in the First World War.

Comedy from a series about the character Cretinetti (Gibrouille). He is organizing a Christmas party but it ends up being a total mess. He buys a Christmas tree, but the tree is so big that he can hardly transport it to the party. As he runs around the city with the tree he creates one disaster after another.

Andre Deed in the persona of a juvenile Boireau, has two ambitions: to get along with pretty schoolgirl Valentina Frascaroli. and to punch his teacher in the head. The latter gets him tossed in the school's dungeon.

Short comedy in which Gribouille (Cretinetti) loses his two lovers to two gentlemen. (EYE)

Andre Deed sees Valentina Frascaroli shoot a man who annoys her in the street and is enchanted. He decides the way to win her affection is to swap clothes with the guy who cleans his apartment, and swagger about the cheap Montmartre saloons. Miss Frascaroli likes it, but the apaches who make up her friends don't, and proceed to torment the lovestruck fellow.

Boireau has to return to life in France after being thrown out of Italy.

Boireau makes a mess, gets pushed around and ends up a gingerbread man.