Word: piers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italy's Pier Angeli, a slender, childlike girl of 18, plays a war bride with no makeup or fancy hairdo, and nothing of what Hollywood knows as sex appeal. Her lean, pretty face radiates something much rarer in Hollywood leading ladies: a lucid innocence through which emotions flow without let or artifice...
Teresa marks a creditable debut for its producer, Arthur M. Loew, president of Loew's International and son of the founder of Loew's Inc. (which owns M-G-M). For Pier Angeli (real name: Anna Maria Pierangeli), the picture means overnight stardom and a five-year M-G-M contract that will give her a chance to hold...
Daughter of a well-to-do Roman architect and engineer, Pier got her look of lean intensity from a spell of malnutrition late in World War II. Though she was never trained as an actress, her delicate features and impressive sincerity made her the "discovery" of three different moviemakers in search of talent. The most recent, Teresa's Scripter Stewart Stern, came across her in Rome after she had made her first movie (Tomorrow Is Too Late) in Italy. After he met her, Director Zinneman thought "she was one of the few genuine film talents I have ever known...
...future of Pier's talent depends on just how skillfully it is handled. MGM, now paying her $1,600 a month plus living expenses, well knows that her unspoiled naturalness is precisely what makes her Pier Angeli. Hence the studio's orders against gilding the lily: no eyebrow plucking, no greasepaint lathering for stills, no hair-dyeing or publicity whirls. Pier's next assignment: the part of a painter who regenerates a swindler (Stewart Granger) in The Light Touch, to be filmed in Tunis and Sicily...
...grey Navy transport in Yokohama, a bugler sounded taps. On the pier, another bugler echoed him. Fifty pressed steel caskets containing the bodies of U.S. fighting men killed in Korea* were loaded on to the ship, which slid out to sea under grey skies...