Trivia

According to several people who knew her, she was terrified of turning 40. She died at the age of 39.

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.

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.

Dated James Dean while he was filming East of Eden (1955).

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 because he wasn't Catholic, 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.

Kirk Douglas, in his autobiography "The Ragman's Son", states that he was engaged to Pier in the early 1950s.

She was Cecil B. DeMille's original choice for the role of Lilia in his biblical epic The Ten Commandments (1956), but she was under contract to MGM and they refused to let her work at another studio. The role went to Debra Paget.

Gave birth to her second child (by second husband Armando Trovajoli), Howard Andrew Rugantino, on 8 January 1963 .

Twin sister of actress Marisa Pavan.

In a 1989 television interview with Skip E. Lowe, actor John Ericson and his wife, actress Karen Ericson, claimed that Pier Angeli did not commit suicide. They said that her twin sister, actress Marisa Pavan, told them Pier had gotten sick. A doctor came to the house and gave her medication that she had a negative reaction to; her tongue swelled and she choked to death. The reaction, however, was delayed, so she died after the doctor had left her house. The rumors quickly spread that she had taken her own life.

Older sister of Patricia Pierangeli.

Buried at: Cimetière des Bulvis Rueil-Malmaison, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France.

Co-starred with Stewart Granger in two movies: The Light Touch (1951) and Sodom and Gomorrah (1962).

In different situations but almost simultaneously, Léonide Moguy and Vittorio De Sica' chose her for her first role.

According to Jane Allen's definitive biography of Pier, she and second husband Armando Trovajoli separated within a couple of years of their marriage but never officially divorced.

Made two movies with Paul Newman: The Silver Chalice (1954) and Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956).

Shes' portrayed by Alessandra Mastronardi in Life (2015).

Sister-in-law of Jean-Pierre Aumont.

Screen, stage, and television actress.

Had Gerascophobia: An abnormal or incessant fear of growing older or aging.