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 was 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.
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 ...
[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.
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[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.
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[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.
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I have loved one person in my whole life, and that was James Dean.
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.
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In different situations but almost simultaneously, Léonide Moguy and Vittorio De Sica' chose her for her first role.
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Kirk Douglas, in his autobiography "The Ragman's Son", states that he was engaged to Pier in the early 1950s.
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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.
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.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
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
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Merry Andrew
1958
performer: "Salud" 1958, "You Can't Always Have What You Want" 1958 - uncredited
Port Afrique
1956
performer: "In Port Afrique", "Melody From Heaven", "I Could Kiss You"
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Girl Talk
1968
TV Series
Herself
Cinépanorama
1964
TV Series documentary
Herself
Estoril y sus fiestas
1960
Documentary short
Herself
The Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom
1960
TV Series
Herself
The Vic Damone Show
1956
TV Series
Herself
What's My Line?
1956
TV Series
Herself - Mystery Guest
Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium
1955
TV Series
Herself
The Ed Sullivan Show
1954
TV Series
Herself
The Million Dollar Nickel
1952
Short
Herself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
James Dean: Forever Young
2005
Documentary
Herself
Biography
2002
TV Series documentary
Herself
James Dean: The First American Teenager
1975
TV Movie documentary
Herself (uncredited)
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story
1951
Documentary
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1952
Golden Globe
Golden Globes, USA
Most Promising Newcomer - Female
Teresa (1951)
1951
Silver Ribbon
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
Best Actress (Migliore Attrice Protagonista)
Domani è troppo tardi (1950)
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1961
BAFTA Film Award
BAFTA Awards
Best Foreign Actress
The Angry Silence (1960)
1955
Henrietta Award
Golden Globes, USA
World Film Favorite - Female
Known for movies
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) as Norma
Battle of the Bulge (1965) as Louise
The Angry Silence (1960) as Anna Curtis
The Story of Three Loves (1953) as Nina Burkhardt (segment "Equilibrium")
$20 Million
