Pier Angeli Wallpapers

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Pier Angeli

Biography for
Pier Angeli

Birth name
Anna Maria Pierangeli
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Height
5' (1.52 m)
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Mini biography
Anna Maria Pierangeli was born on June 19, 1932 in Cagliari, Sardina, Italy. Anna and her twin sister, Marisa Pavan, both had their eyes on film since that was one of the big Italian pastimes. Anna adopted her surname and split it in half. Thus Pier Angeli was the name she would find fame. Her first role was an uncredited part in 1948's Million Dollar Nickel, The (1952), an Italian production. Pier was 16 at the time and it was to be the first of many roles for this beautiful woman. The film was largely forgettable but it was a start. The following year Pier played in another Italian production called Domani è troppo tardi (1949). Again it was a very small role and she was not seen on the silver screen again until 1951. Between 1949 and 1951 she appeared in stage productions and found work in menial jobs. When she did return it was in the film Light Touch, The (1952) as Anna Vasarri. Later that year she won the title role in Teresa (1951). However, she again hit a drought with only one film in 1952 and two in 1953. 1954 was the year when things began to pick up with Hollywood beckoning at her door. After the Italian production of Mam'zelle Nitouche (1954) she caught the eyes of the Hollywood moguls who cast her in Flame and the Flesh, The (1954) and Silver Chalice, The (1954). Now she divided her time between Italy and the US making movies. She married Vic Damone in 1954 which was a union that lasted only four years and produced one son.

No film offers were made in 1955, but in 1956, Pier landed the plum role of Norma Graziano (wife of fighter Rocky Graziano) in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) opposite Paul Newman. The film was well-received at the box-office and she had hopes that things were going to pick up again. She played Ynez in Port Afrique (1956) later that year and then another drought ensued. After Vintage, The (1957), Merry Andrew (1958), and SOS Pacific (1959), she made three more films in 1960. Then once again 1961 saw no appearances. In 1962, Pier played Ildith in Sodom and Gomorrah (1962) and later that year played in a French production entitled Ammutinamento, L' (1962). After the Italian production of Banco à Bangkok pour OSS 117 (1964) she returned to the US for the hit production of Battle of the Bulge (1965).

After a handful of films between 1966 and 1970, Pier realized her dreams of super stardom were not to be. She had divorced her second husband (Armando Trovajoli) in 1969 and made her final appearance on the silver screen in 1971 which was a film called Octaman (1971). On September 10 of that year, Pier was found dead of a barbiturate overdose in her Beverly Hills, California home. She was only 39 years old.

FILMOGRAPHY





Domani è troppo tardi
(1950)

Teresa
(1951)

The Light Touch
(1951)

Domani è un altro giorno
(1951)

The Million Dollar Nickel
(1952)

The Devil Makes Three
(1952)

Sombrero
(1953)

The Story of Three Loves
(1953)

Mam'zelle Nitouche
(1954)

Flame and the Flesh
(1954)

The Silver Chalice
(1955)

Port Afrique
(1956)

Somebody Up There Likes Me
(1956)

Meet Me in Las Vegas
(1956)

The Vintage
(1957)

Merry Andrew
(1958)

SOS Pacific
(1959)

The Angry Silence
(1960)

I moschettieri del mare
(1960)

Estoril y sus fiestas
(1960)

Sodom and Gomorrah
(1962)

L'Ammutinamento
(1962)

Banco in Bangkok
(1964)

Battle of the Bulge
(1965)

Per mille dollari al giorno
(1966)

Berlin, Appointement for the Spies
(1966)

One Step to Hell
(1967)

Kol Mamzer Melech
(1968)

Rose rosse per il fuehrer
(1968)

Addio, Alexandra
(1969)

Viva América!
(1969)

Quell' amore particolare
(1970)

Nelle pieghe della carne
(1970)

Octaman
(1971)

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