Pier Angeli

AKA:
Anna Maria Pierangeli
Nationality:
Italian
Birthdate:
06/19/1932
Birthplace:
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
Death Date:
09/10/1971
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biography
Petite, gentle-looking lead of the 1950s discovered while studying in Rome by French director Leonide Mogue who then co-starred her in "Tomorrow Is Too Late" (1950) opposite Vittorio de Sica. She was put under contract by MGM and starred as a soulful Italian war bride in Fred Zinnemann's "Teresa" (1951), but aside from playing Rocky Graziano's wife in "Somebody Up There Likes Me" (1956) and a circus girl in "Merry Andrew" (1958), she subsequently found few other worthy projects. Her emotional entanglements and physical accidents helped put her career into a tailspin and before her death by Continued
milestones
Year
Milestone
1950 
Film acting debut (as Anna Maria Pierangeli) in Italian film, "Domani e troppo tardi/Tomorrow Is Too Late" (released in US 1952)
1951 
US film debut in "Teresa"