Pier Angeli

Pier Angeli was an Italian actress, born Anna Maria Pierangeli in Cagliari, Sardinia, who was studying art in Rome when she was spotted and cast, at sixteen, in the Italian film Tomorrow Is Too Late (1950). The performance won her the Nastro d'Argento for best actress and an MGM contract, and the studio starred her in Teresa (1951), her first film made in America, and she won a Golden Globe as new star of the year. Often cast as a European ingenue, she played romantic leads in The Story of Three Loves (1953), The Silver Chalice (1954) and Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), and her role in The Angry Silence (1960) earned a BAFTA nomination for best foreign actress. She also released a 1959 album of songs in English and Italian, and worked in Britain and Europe through the 1960s, appearing in Sodom and Gomorrah (1962) and Battle of the Bulge (1965).