Pier Angeli (19 June 1932 – 10 September 1971) was an Italian-born television and film actress. Her American cinematographic debut was in the starring role of the 1951 film Teresa, for which she won a Golden Globe Award. Twenty years later, she had been chosen to play a part in The Godfather, but died before filming began.She had romantic relationships with actors Kirk Douglas and James Dean before going on to marry Vic Damone.
| Full Name | Pier Angeli |
| Net Worth | $1.6 Million |
| Date Of Birth | June 19, 1932 |
| Died | September 10, 1971, Beverly Hills, California, United States |
| Place Of Birth | Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy |
| Height | 1.52 m |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Profession | Actor |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Spouse | Armando Trovajoli, Vic Damone |
| Children | Perry Farinola, Howard Andrew Trovaioli |
| Parents | Luigi Pierangeli, Enrichetta Romiti |
| Siblings | Marisa Pavan, Patrizia Pierangeli |
| Nicknames | Pier Angeli, Angeli, Pier |
| IMDB |
| Awards | Golden Globe Award for Best New Star of the Year – Actress |
| Nominations | Golden Globe Henrietta Award for World Film Favorites, BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress |
| Movies | Somebody Up There Likes Me, The Silver Chalice, Tomorrow Is Too Late, The Story of Three Loves, Merry Andrew, Sodom and Gomorrah, Battle of the Bulge, The Angry Silence, Port Afrique, Octaman, The Light Touch, The Devil Makes Three, Flame and the Flesh, SOS Pacific, Teresa, White Slave Ship, Shadow ... |
| Star Sign | Gemini |
| # | Quote |
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| 1 | [about her relationship with actor James Dean] He wanted me to love him unconditionally, but Jimmy was not able to love someone else in return . . . it was the troubled boy that wanted to be loved very badly. I loved Jimmy as I have loved no one else in my life, but I could not give him the enormous amount that he needed. Loving Jimmy was something that could empty a person. |
| 2 | [about Debbie Reynolds] I don't know what I would have done without Debbie. Debbie was, is and always will be my very dearest and best friend - we are like sisters. |
| 3 | [about her first role as Mirella in Tomorrow Is Too Late (1950)] When the scenes begin, I change completely. I was not Anna. Like when you drink cold, cold water and feel it run like ice inside. I felt I was another girl, not me. |
| 4 | I have loved one person in my whole life, and that was James Dean. |
| # | Fact |
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| 1 | Older sister of Patricia Pierangeli. |
| 2 | According to several people who knew her, she was terrified of turning 40. She died age 39. |
| 3 | She gave birth to her second child Howard Andrew Rugantino on January 8, 1963 by her second husband Armando Trovajoli. |
| 4 | Sister-in-law of Jean-Pierre Aumont. |
| 5 | When shooting a central scene with Michael Craig in The Angry Silence (1960), she was so immersed into her character that she left the script and started to shout in Italian. The scene was so impressive that it remained in the film. |
| 6 | In different situations but almost simultaneously, Léonide Moguy and Vittorio De Sica' chose her for her first role. |
| 7 | Kirk Douglas, in his autobiography "The Ragman's Son", states that he was engaged to Pier in the early 1950s. |
| 8 | Had one son with Vic Damone, Perry Rocco Luigi Farinola Damone, who was born in Los Angeles on August 21, 1955. He worked as a radio DJ and owned an entertainers representation in Phoenix, Arizona. He died on December 9, 2014 of lymphoma in Scottsdale, Arizona. |
| 9 | Dated James Dean while he was filming East of Eden (1955). |
| 10 | Screen, stage, and television actress. |
| 11 | Twin sister of actress Marisa Pavan. |
| 12 | Reportedly, Pier and James Dean were very much in love and wanted to marry, but her mother was against the union because of Dean's behavior, and helped arrange Pier's marriage to Vic Damone. Three years before she died, the National Enquirer magazine published an interview in which Pier would have said that Dean was the only man she had ever really loved. |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
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| Spy in Your Eye | 1965 | Paula Krauss (as Anna Maria Pierangeli) |
| Panic in Bangkok | 1964 | Lila Sinn |
| Musketeers of the Sea | 1962 | Consuelo / Gracia |
| Sodom and Gomorrah | 1962 | Ildith |
| White Slave Ship | 1961 | Polly (as Anna Maria Pierangeli) |
| The Angry Silence | 1960 | Anna Curtis |
| SOS Pacific | 1959 | Teresa |
| Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | 1958 | TV Series | Bernadette Soubirous |
| Merry Andrew | 1958 | Selena Gallini |
| The Vintage | 1957 | Lucienne |
| Somebody Up There Likes Me | 1956 | Norma |
| Port Afrique | 1956 | Ynez |
| Meet Me in Las Vegas | 1956 | Pier Angeli (uncredited) |
| The Silver Chalice | 1954 | Deborra |
| Flame and the Flesh | 1954 | Lisa |
| Mam'zelle Nitouche | 1954 | Denise de Flavigny / Nitouche |
| Sombrero | 1953 | Eufemia Calderon |
| The Story of Three Loves | 1953 | Nina Burkhardt (segment "Equilibrium") |
| The Devil Makes Three | 1952 | Wilhelmina (Willie) Lehrt |
| The Light Touch | 1951 | Anna Vasarri |
| Teresa | 1951 | Teresa Russo |
| Domani è un altro giorno | 1951 | Luisa |
| Tomorrow Is Too Late | 1950 | Mirella (as Anna M. Pierangeli) |
| Octaman | 1971 | Susan Lowry |
| Quell'amore particolare | 1970 | Cecilia (as Anna Maria Pierangeli) |
| In the Folds of the Flesh | 1970 | Falesse / Ester (as Anna Maria Pierangeli) |
| Addio Alexandra | 1969 | Alexandra (as Anna Maria Pierangeli) |
| ¡Viva América! | 1969 | Bambi (as Anna Maria Pierangeli) |
| Every Bastard a King | 1968 | Eileen |
| Code Name, Red Roses | 1968 | Marie (as Anna Maria Pierangeli) |
| King of Africa | 1968 | Ann Peterson (as Anna Maria Pierangeli) |
| For One Thousand Dollars Per Day | 1966 | Betty Benson (as Annamaria Pierangeli) |
| M.M.M. 83 | 1966 | Hélène Blanchard (as Anna Maria Pierangeli) |
| Battle of the Bulge | 1965 | Louise |
