
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. This is a tribute to Italian actress Pier Angeli (1932-1971), and I decided to use the nickname that both her father (who died when she was a teenager) and her beloved James Dean called her. This beautiful, fragile looking young woman brought a sweet vulnerability and innocence to her early roles in her native Italy and MGM, and later a kind of fiery sensuality in her later movies done in Europe. One photographer described Anna Maria Pierangeli as having "the face of a beautiful, troubled angel", and it can be seen clearly in the photos and clips here. So heartbreaking that her life would have so much anguish and have such a sad ending, dying of an accidental drug overdose (her death was NOT a suicide as has been widely circulated). Pier always kept two photos at her bedside - one of her father and the other of Jimmy Dean, two men she had loved most, both of whom died young. In her early days at MGM, she was often cast opposite much older leading men, such as Stewart Granger, Mel Ferrar, Danny Kaye, Gene Kelly, Ricardo Mountalban and Kirk Douglas. Her marriage to singer Vic Damone was stormy and volatile, and her second <b>...</b>
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