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James Dean did want to marry Pier, but her mother ruined things for them. She kept changing the home phone number, but Jimmy got various people to find the new number. I think Pier would have lived longer - and Jimmy too, if they'd been allowed to marry. She left a note at her death, saying Jimmy was the only man she'd ever loved. I wouldn't have let my mum stop seeing Jimmy!!! I have a rebellious nature too!!!
After the 2011 death of Jimmy's confidante, Elizabeth Taylor, it was revealed that Jimmy was gay. How would that have worked out?Coming out in the 1950s would have ended Dean's career.
She was breathtakingly beautiful! Back then ALL of the women were so much more NATURALLY BEAUTIFUL! I do hate that she passed away so young and accidentally.
Yes, a lot of unaltered beauty--some pics seem they are after Ingrid Bergman look, as well as Natalie Wood... but there still was a lot of cosmetic alteration/augmentation then, too. If the studio wanted you to look a certain way, they made it happen...
Her italian mama pressured her to not marry this bad boy but an italian like her. She did obey with a heavy heart. She said in an interview that Jimmy was the only love of her life. No one came close. It says a lot.
@@petertaylor3600 Following further romantic failures, bitter disputes with the Italian tax authorities, and worsening financial difficulties, Pierangeli fell into a severe depression and entered a psychiatric clinic. On September 10, 1971, she was found dead in her Beverly Hills home from an accidental barbiturate overdose. She was only 39 years old. Pierangeli’s sister had her buried in Rueil-Malmaison, a suburb of Paris. “I don’t think any man can save me now,” Pierangli had written in a letter to a friend two months earlier. “I think it may be too late. I think I was meant to live and die alone. Love is far away, somewhere deep inside of me. My love died at the wheel of a porshe,
A thoroughly informative video. And done so succinctly. That's a lot of information to get into such a short space of time. Massive respect to you, Sir!
That truly was Hollywood in those days. The way it ate beautiful young girls up and then, spat them out! A dangerous place to be! Look what it had done with and to Marilyn!
I think Marilyn was a troubled soul most of her life. Aging and not finding an forever after “Prince Charming” added to her mental state. While Hollywood may have exacerbated her demise, she showed early signs of losing control by showing up late for performances and sometimes not being prepared - at least that is the history that has been attached to her. She was a phenomenon of the time and a product of her past.
@@auapplemac1976 She certainly was and who could blame her for her childhood upbringing was heartbreaking. Mental instability ran through her entire family, not just her mother.
Thank you Age. She lookliked an angel. I can see why James fell for her. She is elegant like Audrey Hepburn with a soft sweet personality. They were apparently each other great loves even rumors said it wasn’t the case. For sure, they had something for each other and look good together.
This woman was the love of Deans life. Her mother controlled her. The mother heard about Jimmy’s having been bi. She broke off the relationship and ordered her daughter to marry a singer. According to Debbie Reynolds, that husband beat this poor, talented and controlled tiny woman. Horrible!!!!
Following further romantic failures, bitter disputes with the Italian tax authorities, and worsening financial difficulties, Pierangeli fell into a severe depression and entered a psychiatric clinic. On September 10, 1971, she was found dead in her Beverly Hills home from an accidental barbiturate overdose. She was only 39 years old. Pierangeli’s sister had her buried in Rueil-Malmaison, a suburb of Paris. “I don’t think any man can save me now,” Pierangli had written in a letter to a friend two months earlier. “I think it may be too late. I think I was meant to live and die alone. Love is far away, somewhere deep inside of me. My love died at the wheel of a porshe,
Sometimes your first film will be the film that all your other films will be judged against, which can be a terrible burden. For Pier Angeli this adage would be prove to be unfortunately, true. Pier Angeli was brought to Hollywood in 1951 as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's attempt for the European market since continental screen types were becoming popular. Pier Angeli's ethereal beauty soon tagged her as the new "Ingrid Bergman" Director Fred Zinnemann, who directed her in her first American film, MGM's Teresa (1951), said of her, "This girl can climb to the pinnacle and become one of today's reigning stars of her generation." The demure beauty Italian beauty with the luminous sensitivity and a radiance that the camera adored seemed headed for cinema stardom when everything went awry. Her emotional involvements and marital difficulties forced her to rue the day when she decided to pursue a career in acting against her father's wishes. She was born Anna Maria Pierangeli on the island Sardinia in Cagliari on June 19, 1932, twenty minutes later her twin sister arrived, Maria Luisa, who would likewise go to Hollywood and become an actress under the screen name of Marisa Pavan (who is still with us). Their mother had been an amateur actress who encouraged her twin daughters to become actresses. After her father, who vehemently objected to his daughters show business careers, had passed away, Pier, sister Maria and their mother moved to Hollywood where MGM then gave her the advantage of their publicity department. She became a very popular cover girl and was named a "Star of Tomorrow." and for her performance in Teresa, Pier won a Golden Globe Award as a "Young Star of the Year". MGM decided to split her last surname into two to become Pier Angeli and after she did the film Teresa MGM starred her in a few films that slowly increased her appeal. Pier starred with Stewart Granger in The Light Touch, (1951) and with Gene Kelly in the The Devil Makes Three (1952). In the The Story of Three Loves (1953), she played in the Equilibrium segment she played a young trapeze artist who falls in love with Kirk Douglas. Pier then started with Ricardo Montalban and Yvonne De Carlo in Sombrero (1953). Pier and the films received good notices and the public took to her and liked her. The MGM executives expected her to become a major star. Her best friend on the MGM lot was Debbie Reynolds, who taught her American slang and Pier's frequent escorts were Kirk Douglas and James Dean. All this speculation ended with her front page wedding to Vic Damone on November 24, 1954. But little did anybody know that Pier Angeli had fallen hopelessly in love with James Dean the man she would later claim was her soul mate. Her controlling, devoutly Catholic mother disapproved of Dean because he was not Catholic and she did not approve of his "Bad Boy" screen image. Her mother encouraged her to marry Italian-American crooner Vic Damone. Pier Angeli gave birth to heir son, Perry (he was named in honor of singer Perry Como) on August 21, 1955, just a month before Dean's fatal car accident. Her marriage to Vic Damone was a series of much-publicized emotional separations and reconciliations, with Damone blaming his "meddlesome" mother-in-law for most of their difficulties. In 1957, they separated and were divorced on December 18, 1958. By now Pier Angeli had moved back to Europe where most of her work was now located. After her divorce Pier starred in The Vintage (1957, MGM) that costarred Mel Ferrer and Michele Morgan. Her last film under her MGM contract was in Merry Andrew (1958, MGM) playing a circus girl who marries Danny Kaye. In 1961, Pier married Italian bandleader Armando Travajoli. He was fifteen years older then Pier. Her second son Howard Andrea (nicknamed Popino) was born on January 8, 1963. There were rumors of tax problems and poverty, with her sister, Marisa Pavan, and Marisa's husband actor Jean Pierre Aumont, coming to her rescue. Presumably penniless and alone in 1971, she told the press, "It would be better if I was already dead. I can't go on anymore." A few months later she arrived in Hollywood and was welcomed back by her best friend from MGM Debbie Reynolds and Debbie's best friend Agnes Moorehead. Reynolds set out to help secure film work and with renewed optimism, Pier told the press, "Life is beautiful. I am very happy to be back. Maybe I'll be before the cameras soon." But it was not meant to be, on September 10, 1971 Pier either passed away from anaphylactic shock after being given a tranquilizer by her doctor or an accidental overdose of barbiturates (they don't know for sure), she was 39 years old. Her son Perry Rocco Luigi Farinola Damone, who was born in Los Angeles on August 21, 1955. Unfortunately, he died on December 9, 2014 of lymphoma in Scottsdale, Arizona he was 59 years old.
It's always easy to blame Hollywood for exploiting and destroying celebs, but ultimately as in her case, her big problems were a result of her bad choices in life. . The vanity that often comes with stardom is destructive and has a price.
Why did you purposely avoid James Dean being homosexual or bi-sexual? This fact makes the title seem like a teaser for those who don’t know. This is a serious omission in the Pier Angeli, born Anna Maria Pierangeli, story. The dates were Hollywood Set-Ups. Pier played the “beard” for James Dean. And, this fact may also explain more about the mother’s rejection of the so-called relationship and why Pier had no emotional response to the death of James Dean. Yet, somehow we’re suppose to believe, among all of her zillion lovers, Dean was the love of Pier Angeli’s life. Some important facts were lost in translation. You also don’t say anything, even briefly, about what happened to the twin sister of Pier Angeli, Actress Marisa Pavan, born Maria Luisa Pierangeli. Love Anna Maria Pierangeli, but this video is incomplete.
@@gforceeatingcorrect He was. I recall Elizabeth Taylor hinting that in one of her interviews. She named Rock Hudson and Monty Cliff but didn’t directly name James Dean.
Pier Angeli was only one person he was involved with, he was biasexual, he loved her but he was also playing in the dating field, you can not have both, she knew, and kept her friendship with him. She did not break his heart, he was a free spirit, and wanted a relationship but also to play the field with women and men. All knew and no one cared. He was a great talent, he has a taste for the fast life and died behind he wheel of a racing car. He lived life to the fullest. No one broke his heart. He was a free spirit.
You are mistaken about Dean, he was not homossexual, please stop saying that. Marlon Brando said more than one time that he did not have had sexual relations with Dean. If Dean had been gay he would not have wanted to go out with several girls, which he did, before he met Pier with whom he got immensely in love with, she was the only girl he truly loved and was extremelly sad and terribly hurt when her mother would not permit Pier to marry him because he was a quacker and not catholic. I know all about James Dean because when I was very young I worked in Landon to an american couple with three children as a mother's-help. He was a film producer and knew all about James Dean as an actor and also as a persona. I told the producer that I had loved Dean ever since the day I had seen his 3 films with only 8/9 years old. This occured only a few years after Dean had died. So I know all about beautiful, wonderful James Dean since then and I cannot stand people saying and writing lias about him and worst of all damaging his loved memory. James Dean did not/does not deserve such cruelty.Thank you for the attention.
Sex didn’t destroy her and she was still innocent up to her death. When some get to the top and find they still have problems realising there is nothing more, they turn to drink, drugs and get depressed. Many cannot handle the good life. Besides, she wasn’t that young beauty anymore and knew it.
I remember reading a Playboy magazine interview with Eartha Kitt where she claimed to be the only female who had ever had intimate knowledge of James Dean and when asked how his performance was she replied it was Extremely Sad seeing how James Dean had spent his entire life as a catcher he had no clue Whatsoever on how to pitch to a woman let alone understand how a woman's anatomy works!!
From reliable sources, it is my understanding that it was Marlon Brando who broke James Dean's heart. Dean was only 24 when he died, I don't think anybody did any great damage to his heart.
How crazy there is no proof he was a fan of Brando s acting when he was in New York but no relationship it’s all a joke 🤣James Dean was original and definitely no ❤️brakes
@@finosuilleabhain7781 i think that mostly ,before 40y.,can be a wonderful excuse. After 40 ,i think that persons choose what is more conforting their souls.They don't want to pretend anymore. Bi ,during the youth ,can be an acting job. Stanwyck & Taylor =Lavender mariage ,so common in Hollywood
@@alexanderzaphir721 Why are you using the word "excuse", why do you imagine people are "pretending", and why are you pulling arbitrary age boundaries out of the air without justification? Do you have any experience of the world? People tend to be on a continuum when it comes to sexual preference and while it's true that some people's predilections shift over time, most others remain asexual, heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual throughout their life.
I'm sure James Dean really was in love with her. Because she probably knew he was bi sexual, that probably was the main reason it never went any further. Just like Natalie Wood who divorced Robert Wagner after finding him in bed with another man, she many years later remarried him.
@fob1xxl Your assertions about the sex lives of James Dean and Robert Wagner can not be proven. Wagner is alive but refuses to discuss why he and Natalie Wood divorced in 1962. Newspapers quoted her as saying, in divorce court in Santa Monica, that her husband had spent too much time apart from her playing golf, and he did not feel comfortable interacting with her friends.
But everyone that posted has a great idea and you all might be right so please don’t take what I said wrong. It’s just my opinion and what I read and like I said you all have a great point thank you and have a lovely Christmas old. Are you and your family God bless.
No, it wasn't, several people confirmed that they were in love. In an interview a few years before her death, Pier stated that Jimmy was the love of her life.
@@LindaLaurenPsychicMedium I read that Dean was hopelessly devoted to Marlon Brando, who took advantage of the "weakness" and tormented him about it. I didn't believe this long ago but I do now. Too many people with no axe to grind validated the story.
@@kathrynfauble9053 Brando is on record saying that he had homosexual experiences and wasn't ashamed of it. Too many people who were friends of them both at the time said it was true about Dean & Brando. I didn't believe it for a long time either but I do now. I don't think Brando was gay or even bi but was willing to do absolutely anything. According to people who knew him, Dean was at least bi and maybe gay. Dean did hero worship Brando (like all actors) so....
@@paulascott5701 "Too many people who were friends of them both at the time" are gossipy people who get old then say whatever they want about long-dead famous actors. In a lot of old folks' homes in California and Arizona, people say they knew James Dean personally. He predeceased everyone he worked with, so he is the easiest target for fictionalization. Unless you have seen video of the old people's statements, you don't know which sexual acts they have attributed to James Dean, Pier Angeli or Marlon Brando. Some attribute anal penetration to those three, others attribute only kissing, etcetera. No matter which sexual acts old people describe, they can say anything they want about a person who died in 1955, a person who died in 1971, and a white man who was filmed marching in Martin Luther King's 1968 funeral procession in Atlanta (Brando). Some residents of old folks' homes in Arizona and California wish they had marched alongside Dr. King or in his funeral procession, but in the 1960s they were too busy gossiping and speculating about sex. In their old age, they keep doing that. They are among the seniors who make up stories about yesteryear. Depression is common among the elderly. Depression can lead to making up stories.
@@hannahcarvalho8664 She did not commit suicide. While the coroner concluded that she had ""mild barbital intoxication", that's not what killed her. Her doctor had given her an injection of Compazine but he did not monitor her after the dose, as he should have. It's likely that she died of sceptic shock. Pier's mother wanted to take legal action against the doctor, but the family persuaded her to drop it. Pier's final death certificate, issued in France, states that she died from natural causes.
Pier was a very beautiful girl ! I think if Dean wasn't so ambivalent about his sexuality and committed to Piers, she would have had a stable family life , but Dean was bisexual and somewhat of a masochist . Piers was just looking for love and a man who would meet her expectations, but she kept choosing men with careers that were not stable and they probably fooled around on her too . She was probably having affairs hoping that one would blossom into a fairy tail love . She was looking for love in all the wrong places . So she liked men , who were not serious about long term relationships , most women of that era liked these men , a lot , but they didn't sleep with everyone they swooned over . I believe piers was mentally exhausted and was not thinking clearly and men took advantage of her . Very, very sad ! 😪🙏
That's what you do when you're unfulfilled and loveless, or think you are. Hold the phone, most heterosexual women like men. It's one of those things @robert. They tend to do silly things and sleep with all sorts of people thinking somebody will love them. Deeply sorry for the poor little thing.
@@Muirmaiden Bisexuality was and is quite common in Hollywood culture. That is just fact. Dean was no different. Bowers has not been proven unreliable, quite the contrary.
She didn't shed a tear when James Dean died because she had already moved on from him. I don't know why people are under the impression that she married Vic Damone because he was Italian. Do your research because her romance with Dean fizzled down before her marriage to Damone. She moved on from James Dean and that's why he was heartbroken. It's also why she didn't shed a tear when he died. I've read comments in this post where people are talking crap saying James Dean was the only man she ever loved, blah blah blah blah. Oh please, she married Vic Damone because he wasn't a loose cannon like James Dean. Which is why she left him in the first place.
Hang on! James Dean was gay, however. Perhaps he stretched a point here and there, certainly with Elizabeth Taylor who, it was said, never got over his death. But...........................?
@@hannahcarvalho8664 Sorry, @hannacaravalho8664: James Dean definitely gay. But does it matter? It's just one of those terrible things you must liv e with.
@@petertaylor3600 If it didn't matter why bring it up? You not she mentioned he was gay. It seems a little far fetched to be gay when he was rather distraught over Pier Angeli's wedding to Vic Damone.
i have no idea weather JD was gay or not - all i have is a quote from the man himself: "No I am not homosexual but I'm not going to go through life with one hand tied behind my back."
Following further romantic failures, bitter disputes with the Italian tax authorities, and worsening financial difficulties, Pierangeli fell into a severe depression and entered a psychiatric clinic. On September 10, 1971, she was found dead in her Beverly Hills home from an accidental barbiturate overdose. She was only 39 years old. Pierangeli’s sister had her buried in Rueil-Malmaison, a suburb of Paris. “I don’t think any man can save me now,” Pierangeli had written in a letter to a friend two months earlier. “I think it may be too late. I think I was meant to live and die alone. Love is far away, somewhere deep inside of me. My love died at the wheel of a porshe.
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James Dean did want to marry Pier, but her mother ruined things for them. She kept changing the home phone number, but Jimmy got various people to find the new number. I think Pier would have lived longer - and Jimmy too, if they'd been allowed to marry. She left a note at her death, saying Jimmy was the only man she'd ever loved. I wouldn't have let my mum stop seeing Jimmy!!! I have a rebellious nature too!!!
After the 2011 death of Jimmy's confidante, Elizabeth Taylor, it was revealed that Jimmy was gay. How would that have worked out?Coming out in the 1950s would have ended Dean's career.
She was breathtakingly beautiful! Back then ALL of the women were so much more NATURALLY BEAUTIFUL! I do hate that she passed away so young and accidentally.
So Sad, She Reminds Me Alot of Natalie Wood, To Bad Her Dean Didn't Marry, That Happens Alot in Life Tho, R.I.P. Beautiful Lady !!!!!!!!!
Yes, a lot of unaltered beauty--some pics seem they are after Ingrid Bergman look, as well as Natalie Wood... but there still was a lot of cosmetic alteration/augmentation then, too. If the studio wanted you to look a certain way, they made it happen...
Her italian mama pressured her to not marry this bad boy but an italian like her. She did obey with a heavy heart. She said in an interview that Jimmy was the only love of her life. No one came close. It says a lot.
I would have Never listened to mom on this one. What a beautiful couple Pier & Jimmy. Each had a tragic ending. 😥
@@morgantylerv9406 I always wondered whatever became of PierAngeli. Now I know and thank you everybody.
Pier Angeli not lover JD
@@petertaylor3600 Following further romantic failures, bitter disputes with the Italian tax authorities, and worsening financial difficulties, Pierangeli fell into a severe depression and entered a psychiatric clinic. On September 10, 1971, she was found dead in her Beverly Hills home from an accidental barbiturate overdose. She was only 39 years old. Pierangeli’s sister had her buried in Rueil-Malmaison, a suburb of Paris.
“I don’t think any man can save me now,” Pierangli had written in a letter to a friend two months earlier. “I think it may be too late. I think I was meant to live and die alone. Love is far away, somewhere deep inside of me. My love died at the wheel of a porshe,
@@victorutu3324 lol...I guess you haven't been to the James Dean museum.
James Dean & Pier Angeli should have run off & gotten married. They made such a gorgeous couple & maybe they'd still be with us. ♡♡
A thoroughly informative video. And done so succinctly. That's a lot of information to get into such a short space of time.
Massive respect to you, Sir!
I agree with your comments he does a great job .
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I hope Pier Angeli and James Dean have been reunited in the afterlife. And their souls are now at peace.
He stole her heart and never gave it back. She remained heart broken until her end. TYVM! :-)
That truly was Hollywood in those days. The way it ate beautiful young girls up and then, spat them out! A dangerous place to be! Look what it had done with and to Marilyn!
I think Marilyn was a troubled soul most of her life. Aging and not finding an forever after “Prince Charming” added to her mental state. While Hollywood may have exacerbated her demise, she showed early signs of losing control by showing up late for performances and sometimes not being prepared - at least that is the history that has been attached to her. She was a phenomenon of the time and a product of her past.
@@auapplemac1976 very well said
@@auapplemac1976 She certainly was and who could blame her for her childhood upbringing was heartbreaking. Mental instability ran through her entire family, not just her mother.
Thank you Age. She lookliked an angel. I can see why James fell for her. She is elegant like Audrey Hepburn with a soft sweet personality. They were apparently each other great loves even rumors said it wasn’t the case. For sure, they had something for each other and look good together.
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There should have been more pictures, it's like I just watched 16 minutes of the same rotating one's.
Earth Kitt said she warned him many times not to ride the Porche Spider anymore 😢She felt he had no spirit when she saw him 2 days before he died
She was really beautiful and ethereal.
This woman was the love of Deans life. Her mother controlled her. The mother heard about Jimmy’s having been bi. She broke off the relationship and ordered her daughter to marry a singer. According to Debbie Reynolds, that husband beat this poor, talented and controlled tiny woman. Horrible!!!!
He beat her ! She was so sweet and so tiny , what kind of monsters was he to beat her like that ! Gone way too soon 💔🌹
Thanks AOV❤
She was a great beauty.
Maybe her mother didn’t like Dean’s reputation
She was beautiful indeed but beauty is short lived your only desirable in your prime till the next hottie comes along.
Following further romantic failures, bitter disputes with the Italian tax authorities, and worsening financial difficulties, Pierangeli fell into a severe depression and entered a psychiatric clinic. On September 10, 1971, she was found dead in her Beverly Hills home from an accidental barbiturate overdose. She was only 39 years old. Pierangeli’s sister had her buried in Rueil-Malmaison, a suburb of Paris.
“I don’t think any man can save me now,” Pierangli had written in a letter to a friend two months earlier. “I think it may be too late. I think I was meant to live and die alone. Love is far away, somewhere deep inside of me. My love died at the wheel of a porshe,
Hello, I would like to know how did you know that she wrote a letter ? what is your source ? is the letter made public ?
I was young then when i watched pier angelie movies. If my memories serves me well she married vic damone that's all i can remember.. 🤗
never seen her, wow stunning.
Sometimes your first film will be the film that all your other films will be judged against, which can be a terrible burden. For Pier Angeli this adage would be prove to be unfortunately, true.
Pier Angeli was brought to Hollywood in 1951 as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's attempt for the European market since continental screen types were becoming popular. Pier Angeli's ethereal beauty soon tagged her as the new "Ingrid Bergman" Director Fred Zinnemann, who directed her in her first American film, MGM's Teresa (1951), said of her, "This girl can climb to the pinnacle and become one of today's reigning stars of her generation." The demure beauty Italian beauty with the luminous sensitivity and a radiance that the camera adored seemed headed for cinema stardom when everything went awry. Her emotional involvements and marital difficulties forced her to rue the day when she decided to pursue a career in acting against her father's wishes.
She was born Anna Maria Pierangeli on the island Sardinia in Cagliari on June 19, 1932, twenty minutes later her twin sister arrived, Maria Luisa, who would likewise go to Hollywood and become an actress under the screen name of Marisa Pavan (who is still with us). Their mother had been an amateur actress who encouraged her twin daughters to become actresses.
After her father, who vehemently objected to his daughters show business careers, had passed away, Pier, sister Maria and their mother moved to Hollywood where MGM then gave her the advantage of their publicity department. She became a very popular cover girl and was named a "Star of Tomorrow." and for her performance in Teresa, Pier won a Golden Globe Award as a "Young Star of the Year". MGM decided to split her last surname into two to become Pier Angeli and after she did the film Teresa MGM starred her in a few films that slowly increased her appeal. Pier starred with Stewart Granger in The Light Touch, (1951) and with Gene Kelly in the The Devil Makes Three (1952). In the The Story of Three Loves (1953), she played in the Equilibrium segment she played a young trapeze artist who falls in love with Kirk Douglas. Pier then started with Ricardo Montalban and Yvonne De Carlo in Sombrero (1953). Pier and the films received good notices and the public took to her and liked her. The MGM executives expected her to become a major star. Her best friend on the MGM lot was Debbie Reynolds, who taught her American slang and Pier's frequent escorts were Kirk Douglas and James Dean.
All this speculation ended with her front page wedding to Vic Damone on November 24, 1954. But little did anybody know that Pier Angeli had fallen hopelessly in love with James Dean the man she would later claim was her soul mate. Her controlling, devoutly Catholic mother disapproved of Dean because he was not Catholic and she did not approve of his "Bad Boy" screen image. Her mother encouraged her to marry Italian-American crooner Vic Damone. Pier Angeli gave birth to heir son, Perry (he was named in honor of singer Perry Como) on August 21, 1955, just a month before Dean's fatal car accident. Her marriage to Vic Damone was a series of much-publicized emotional separations and reconciliations, with Damone blaming his "meddlesome" mother-in-law for most of their difficulties. In 1957, they separated and were divorced on December 18, 1958.
By now Pier Angeli had moved back to Europe where most of her work was now located. After her divorce Pier starred in The Vintage (1957, MGM) that costarred Mel Ferrer and Michele Morgan. Her last film under her MGM contract was in Merry Andrew (1958, MGM) playing a circus girl who marries Danny Kaye.
In 1961, Pier married Italian bandleader Armando Travajoli. He was fifteen years older then Pier. Her second son Howard Andrea (nicknamed Popino) was born on January 8, 1963.
There were rumors of tax problems and poverty, with her sister, Marisa Pavan, and Marisa's husband actor Jean Pierre Aumont, coming to her rescue. Presumably penniless and alone in 1971, she told the press, "It would be better if I was already dead. I can't go on anymore." A few months later she arrived in Hollywood and was welcomed back by her best friend from MGM Debbie Reynolds and Debbie's best friend Agnes Moorehead. Reynolds set out to help secure film work and with renewed optimism, Pier told the press, "Life is beautiful. I am very happy to be back. Maybe I'll be before the cameras soon."
But it was not meant to be, on September 10, 1971 Pier either passed away from anaphylactic shock after being given a tranquilizer by her doctor or an accidental overdose of barbiturates (they don't know for sure), she was 39 years old.
Her son Perry Rocco Luigi Farinola Damone, who was born in Los Angeles on August 21, 1955. Unfortunately, he died on December 9, 2014 of lymphoma in Scottsdale, Arizona he was 59 years old.
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It's always easy to blame Hollywood for exploiting and destroying celebs, but ultimately as in her case, her big problems were a result of her bad choices in life. . The vanity that often comes with stardom is destructive and has a price.
Excellent video very informative, always great to hear about their lives and careers. Brenton 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Thank you Brenton! 🙂
He was my favourite james dean from somalia
Where are you heard unread? She was James Dean blame besides her instead of her husband and that Jimmy was the only love of my life.
I never knew she was wild after her marriage to Damon fizzled. He later married actress Diahann Carroll.
I like your last assessment.
If they were so close, why would she run off with Vic? I know her mom didn't like Dean, but there has to be more.
Maybe she sensed he was bisexual/gay and it wouldn't work?
@Dale Howard That is pure speculation. Pier Angeli has been unable to speak since 1971. Enjoy her movies or else please leave her alone.
She wanted too be married but James didn’t want to be at the time he was too free spirited but he loved her l think
Her mother forced her to marry someone else
pier angeli is so beautiful
Hollywood destroyed many of them!
Never trust a pretty face but you can trust James Dean
Wasn’t pier angeli Vic Damones woman ?
Yep.
Well, he said they were married! duh.
After Dean
Both her and James Dean had undiagnosed bipolar. So obvious.
You left out the part where she said Dean was the love of her life.
Thank you for posting!
Thank you Jody! 🙂
Just something European and refreshing about her. Would have broken my heart too.
She was a good actress.
Why did you purposely avoid James Dean being homosexual or bi-sexual?
This fact makes the title seem like a teaser for those who don’t know. This is a serious omission in the Pier Angeli, born Anna Maria Pierangeli, story.
The dates were Hollywood Set-Ups. Pier played the “beard” for James Dean. And, this fact may also explain more about the mother’s rejection of the so-called relationship and why Pier had no emotional response to the death of James Dean.
Yet, somehow we’re suppose to believe, among all of her zillion lovers, Dean was the love of Pier Angeli’s life.
Some important facts were lost in translation.
You also don’t say anything, even briefly, about what happened to the twin sister of Pier Angeli, Actress Marisa Pavan, born Maria Luisa Pierangeli.
Love Anna Maria Pierangeli, but this video is incomplete.
Thank you!
Cause he WASNT
James Dean was a homosexual like the majority of male actors
@@gforceeatingcorrect He was. I recall Elizabeth Taylor hinting that in one of her interviews. She named Rock Hudson and Monty Cliff but didn’t directly name James Dean.
lefties love to push sin & perversion to b the norm
Well, he should have been nicer to her.
Pier Angeli was only one person he was involved with, he was biasexual, he loved her but he was also playing in the dating field, you can not have both, she knew, and kept her friendship with him. She did not break his heart, he was a free spirit, and wanted a relationship but also to play the field with women and men. All knew and no one cared. He was a great talent, he has a taste for the fast life and died behind he wheel of a racing car. He lived life to the fullest. No one broke his heart. He was a free spirit.
Who is he?
Dean was born under Aquarius, he was eccentric.
@@dashoverton1963 moon in Scorpio, need I say more!
You are mistaken about Dean, he was not homossexual, please stop saying that. Marlon Brando said more than one time that he did not have had sexual relations with Dean. If Dean had been gay he would not have wanted to go out with several girls, which he did, before he met Pier with whom he got immensely in love with, she was the only girl he truly loved and was extremelly sad and terribly hurt when her mother would not permit Pier to marry him because he was a quacker and not catholic. I know all about James Dean because when I was very young I worked in Landon to an american couple with three children as a mother's-help. He was a film producer and knew all about James Dean as an actor and also as a persona. I told the producer that I had loved Dean ever since the day I had seen his 3 films with only 8/9 years old. This occured only a few years after Dean had died. So I know all about beautiful, wonderful James Dean since then and I cannot stand people saying and writing lias about him and worst of all damaging his loved memory. James Dean did not/does not deserve such cruelty.Thank you for the attention.
James no gay!!
Would you cover the great Anna Magnani?
Who in theit right mind would leave Dean for Damon? UGH!
fallen, just outside beauty nothing inside clear.
James said many times she had a beautiful soul
I wanted to know if is it true that before her death, Anna Maria Pierangeli wrote an unaddressed letter to her "great love" ?
source: vogue
Sex didn’t destroy her and she was still innocent up to her death. When some get to the top and find they still have problems realising there is nothing more, they turn to drink, drugs and get depressed. Many cannot handle the good life. Besides, she wasn’t that young beauty anymore and knew it.
She had that Maria callas look,
I've never watched Flame and the Flesh by Day...is it any good? 🤣
Why don't you call her Annamaria? Pier is NOT a name. Pierangeli is her surname.
Pier was her screen name.
I remember reading a Playboy magazine interview with Eartha Kitt where she claimed to be the only female who had ever had intimate knowledge of James Dean and when asked how his performance was she replied it was Extremely Sad seeing how James Dean had spent his entire life as a catcher he had no clue Whatsoever on how to pitch to a woman let alone understand how a woman's anatomy works!!
What exactly are you saying here? Are you saying this video isn't true and that JD was gay?
@@SlickArmor Look up the Playboy article and read it yourself.
@@worldtraveler930 wow we sure don't want to put you out of your way to make a coherent comment. Weirdo.
That’s just rumors, many women have talked about Dean and their relationship
@@thebuddyholly right, somehow millions of women by their word slept with Dean. Just like millions of men slept with Marilyn.
💗💗💗
Although you claim she broke James Deans heart the Times Register states it was the other way around
Very pretty, but I have never heard of her.
From reliable sources, it is my understanding that it was Marlon Brando who broke James Dean's heart. Dean was only 24 when he died, I don't think anybody did any great damage to his heart.
Yo estaba enamorada de Jim Dean
SUCH NONSENE!
How crazy there is no proof he was a fan of Brando s acting when he was in New York but no relationship it’s all a joke 🤣James Dean was original and definitely no ❤️brakes
42: damn fine.
Romance doesn't break heart literally
It's a slang saying
One may feel disappointment
But there are many more around
To try again!
Could you do one on Richard Gere & Jayne Kennedy? I ❤️your voice!!!!!
She didn't break J.Dean's heart.....
If she had a brother😂😁😀......perhaps that should be possible!!!!!!!
She had a twin sister and jimmy was bi, by the way. He could love girls too. Ursulla Andress was his ex girlfriend.
@@lindseycarribean5113 Mmmm!!!!!???????😁😁😁😁🤔🤔🤔🤔🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫
Bi???..what a nice excuse...i don't believe so much in...bi versions..
@@alexanderzaphir721 You don't believe some people are bisexual?
@@finosuilleabhain7781 i think that mostly ,before 40y.,can be a wonderful excuse.
After 40 ,i think that persons choose what is more conforting their souls.They don't want to pretend anymore.
Bi ,during the youth ,can be an acting job.
Stanwyck & Taylor =Lavender mariage ,so common in Hollywood
@@alexanderzaphir721 Why are you using the word "excuse", why do you imagine people are "pretending", and why are you pulling arbitrary age boundaries out of the air without justification? Do you have any experience of the world? People tend to be on a continuum when it comes to sexual preference and while it's true that some people's predilections shift over time, most others remain asexual, heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual throughout their life.
GOOD VIDEO
She really got around ...
Dean died young. Thats what made him famous. As far as an actor....currency beyond value.
East of Eden made him famous.
I'm sure James Dean really was in love with her. Because she probably knew he was bi sexual, that probably was the main reason it never went any further. Just like Natalie Wood who divorced Robert Wagner after finding him in bed with another man, she many years later remarried him.
@fob1xxl Your assertions about the sex lives of James Dean and Robert Wagner can not be proven. Wagner is alive but refuses to discuss why he and Natalie Wood divorced in 1962. Newspapers quoted her as saying, in divorce court in Santa Monica, that her husband had spent too much time apart from her playing golf, and he did not feel comfortable interacting with her friends.
It was Pier's mother after hearing about Dean's unsavoury past that said no to that marriage.
But everyone that posted has a great idea and you all might be right so please don’t take what I said wrong. It’s just my opinion and what I read and like I said you all have a great point thank you and have a lovely Christmas old. Are you and your family God bless.
Dean was GAY! Studio set up.
Bi.
@@lindseycarribean5113 Never.
But, Kirk Douglas?? Ugh. He was crude. Good she didn’t stay with him.
No, it wasn't, several people confirmed that they were in love. In an interview a few years before her death, Pier stated that Jimmy was the love of her life.
You don’t know what you are talking about 🤪
She was J Dean's beard
Good friends, maybe, but I seriously doubt she broke Dean's heart.
Have you won’t be popular but our our view is the truth! That’s exactly correct if anyone broke his heart, it was rock Hudson.
@@LindaLaurenPsychicMedium I read that Dean was hopelessly devoted to Marlon Brando, who took advantage of the "weakness" and tormented him about it. I didn't believe this long ago but I do now. Too many people with no axe to grind validated the story.
@Paula Scott Only Marlon Brando could have confirmed that story. If he didn’t, nobody ever will know whether it is true.
@@kathrynfauble9053 Brando is on record saying that he had homosexual experiences and wasn't ashamed of it. Too many people who were friends of them both at the time said it was true about Dean & Brando. I didn't believe it for a long time either but I do now. I don't think Brando was gay or even bi but was willing to do absolutely anything. According to people who knew him, Dean was at least bi and maybe gay. Dean did hero worship Brando (like all actors) so....
@@paulascott5701 "Too many people who were friends of them both at the time" are gossipy people who get old then say whatever they want about long-dead famous actors. In a lot of old folks' homes in California and Arizona, people say they knew James Dean personally. He predeceased everyone he worked with, so he is the easiest target for fictionalization.
Unless you have seen video of the old people's statements, you don't know which sexual acts they have attributed to James Dean, Pier Angeli or Marlon Brando. Some attribute anal penetration to those three, others attribute only kissing, etcetera.
No matter which sexual acts old people describe, they can say anything they want about a person who died in 1955, a person who died in 1971, and a white man who was filmed marching in Martin Luther King's 1968 funeral procession in Atlanta (Brando). Some residents of old folks' homes in Arizona and California wish they had marched alongside Dr. King or in his funeral procession, but in the 1960s they were too busy gossiping and speculating about sex. In their old age, they keep doing that. They are among the seniors who make up stories about yesteryear. Depression is common among the elderly. Depression can lead to making up stories.
She loved James Dean? Never!!
How can you be so sure ? Ursulla Andress had an affair with him.
@@lindseycarribean5113 she loved her own beauty,she didn’t love anyone,she killed herself só she would’t get old
@@lindseycarribean5113 Right. It's called being bisexual.
@@hannahcarvalho8664 She did not commit suicide. While the coroner concluded that she had ""mild barbital intoxication", that's not what killed her. Her doctor had given her an injection of Compazine but he did not monitor her after the dose, as he should have. It's likely that she died of sceptic shock. Pier's mother wanted to take legal action against the doctor, but the family persuaded her to drop it. Pier's final death certificate, issued in France, states that she died from natural causes.
@@Muirmaidentrue??
Give me a a break already, the dead man was GAY! Quit trying to make him straight!
Bi
He was bi
Bisexual. He several relationships with women, Pier Angeli was only one of them.
@Michael Garcia Actor Martin Landau knew James Dean personally. He said decades later that rumors of Dean sleeping with men were “not true.”
Quit trying to make him gay his friends keep saying he was interested in women
Pier was a very beautiful girl ! I think if Dean wasn't so ambivalent about his sexuality and committed to Piers, she would have had a stable family life , but Dean was bisexual and somewhat of a masochist . Piers was just looking for love and a man who would meet her expectations, but she kept choosing men with careers that were not stable and they probably fooled around on her too . She was probably having affairs hoping that one would blossom into a fairy tail love . She was looking for love in all the wrong places . So she liked men , who were not serious about long term relationships , most women of that era liked these men , a lot , but they didn't sleep with everyone they swooned over . I believe piers was mentally exhausted and was not thinking clearly and men took advantage of her . Very, very sad ! 😪🙏
That's what you do when you're unfulfilled and loveless, or think you are. Hold the phone, most heterosexual women like men. It's one of those things @robert. They tend to do silly things and sleep with all sorts of people thinking somebody will love them. Deeply sorry for the poor little thing.
Robert..you lie completely.
@@margueritemazzeo2904 : Now why would you say I " lie completely ? " Show me were I am lying . If you don't respond, then you are just being a troll.
@@robertdemitro1520 All you talk about is your opinion..not facts..period.
@@margueritemazzeo2904 : This your answer ? Get serious . Back the the bridge you go .
I always thought James Dean used people sexually to advance his career. He had a "bad boy" reputation.
Just rumors
her job was not acting but changing parteners
Total bullshit. Dean was well known for his homosexuality.
@Suriya Kassa all a sham.
@Suriya Kassa Read Scotty Bowers book about lavender "romances"
@Suriya Kassa He was called the human ashtray in the gay community.
@@nefersguy Bowers was unreliable, to say the least. Dean was involved with several women, many of whom have talked about their relationship with him.
@@Muirmaiden Bisexuality was and is quite common in Hollywood culture. That is just fact. Dean was no different. Bowers has not been proven unreliable, quite the contrary.
She didn't shed a tear when James Dean died because she had already moved on from him. I don't know why people are under the impression that she married Vic Damone because he was Italian. Do your research because her romance with Dean fizzled down before her marriage to Damone. She moved on from James Dean and that's why he was heartbroken. It's also why she didn't shed a tear when he died. I've read comments in this post where people are talking crap saying James Dean was the only man she ever loved, blah blah blah blah. Oh please, she married Vic Damone because he wasn't a loose cannon like James Dean. Which is why she left him in the first place.
Nah she just didn’t go public about it, theywrote letters even when she was married to another man
But she said the only Man she have a love with Jimmy, and then Jimmy see you said females with her husband was laying next to her
Wait! Wasn't James Dean gay? She broke his heart as a good friend taking her life more than a love of his life
That’s just a myth say all his friends
No she didn’t break his heart because in essence he was gay so she would’ve been a beard for him if anything.
@Linda Lauren An actor - friend of James Dean, Martin Landau, says rumors of his sleeping with men were not true.
Took too long to talk about James
....yawn ZZZzzzzzz
I thought he was gay!!??
Bisexual.
Lol she didn't. He was gay and she was his beard. Marlon Brando was the love of his life and the who broke his heart
That’s rumors who just came much later his death, marlon denied it and their friends said they were so inlove but couldn’t marry because her mother
But wasn't he gay?
Hang on! James Dean was gay, however. Perhaps he stretched a point here and there, certainly with Elizabeth Taylor who, it was said, never got over his death. But...........................?
He was bisexual. In Hollywood, he was mostly involved with women.
James Dean no gay!!
@@hannahcarvalho8664 Sorry, @hannacaravalho8664: James Dean definitely gay. But does it matter? It's just one of those terrible things you must liv e with.
@@petertaylor3600 If it didn't matter why bring it up? You not she mentioned he was gay.
It seems a little far fetched to be gay when he was rather distraught over Pier Angeli's wedding to Vic Damone.
i have no idea weather JD was gay or not - all i have is a quote from the man himself: "No I am not homosexual but I'm not going to go through life with one hand tied behind my back."
Following further romantic failures, bitter disputes with the Italian tax authorities, and worsening financial difficulties, Pierangeli fell into a severe depression and entered a psychiatric clinic. On September 10, 1971, she was found dead in her Beverly Hills home from an accidental barbiturate overdose. She was only 39 years old. Pierangeli’s sister had her buried in Rueil-Malmaison, a suburb of Paris.
“I don’t think any man can save me now,” Pierangeli had written in a letter to a friend two months earlier. “I think it may be too late. I think I was meant to live and die alone. Love is far away, somewhere deep inside of me. My love died at the wheel of a porshe.