Research Catalog

Title

Pier Angeli : a fragile life / by Jane Allen.

Author

Allen, Jane, 1941-

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., ©2002.

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Details

Description

xi, 230 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

• "This work is the first full-length biography of actress Anna Maria Pierangeli, from her early life in Italy to her death at the age of 39. She was discovered by Vittorio De Sica and soon after starred in her first film, Domani e troppo tardi (Tomorrow Is Too Late), which began her meteoric rise to fame in Italy. She arrived in Hollywood in 1950 at the age of 18, and the first thing MGM did was change her name to Pier Angeli and predict great things for its newest actress."
• "The book covers her seven year career with MGM, her two unhappy marriages to Via Damone and Armando Trovajoli, her love for her children, Perry and Andrew, her brief and stormy relationship with James Dean, her dependent relationships with her mother and such stars as Kirk Douglas, Richard Attenborough and Debbie Reynolds, and the mystery surrounding her death."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Motion picture actors and actresses
• Angeli, Pier
• Angeli, Pier, 1932-1971
• Biographies
• Italy
• Motion picture actors and actresses > Italy > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index.
• Includes filmography.

Contents

Prologue: Los Angeles: Tuesday, September 14, 1971 -- Italy: The Beginning -- Domani e troppo tardi -- Teresa -- Hollywood: 1951-1952 -- Kirk -- James Dean -- The Wedding -- Perry -- The Bubble Bursts -- The Watershed -- Return to Rome -- Breakdown -- Return to Hollywood -- Epilogue: Requiescat in Pace -- Drugs.

ISBN

• 0786413921
• 9780786413928

LCCN

2002012037

OCLC

• ocm50291059
• 50291059
• SCSB-1271460

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library