Pier Angeli

 Pier Angeli (June 19, 1932 –September 10, 1971)

Her American film debut was in the starring role of Teresa (1951), for which she won a Golden Globe Award. Twenty years later, she had been chosen to play a part in The Godfather, but died before filming began. Pier had romantic relationships with actors Kirk Douglas and James Dean before going on to marry Vic Damone. She was deeply in love with Dean, but due to pressure from her Mother, MGM, and others, Pier ended their relationship. She worked at MGM for Somebody Up There Likes Me as Paul Newman's long-suffering wife (James Dean had originally been expected to play the starring role, which went to Newman after Dean's death). She then appeared in The Vintage (1957) with Mel Ferrer and John Kerr, and finished her contract in Merry Andrew, starring Danny Kaye. She also appeared with Vic Damone as a guest on the June 17, 1956 episode of What's My Line?. Her film career was stagnant in the 1960s, and was generally unhappy, despite having two children (one from Damone, another from a marriage to Italian composer Armando Trovaioli).

At the age of 39, Angeli was found dead of an accidental barbiturate overdose in her home at 355 S. McCarty Drive, Beverly Hills. She is interred in the Cimetière des Bulvis, in Rueil-Malmaison, Hauts-de-Seine, France.