What they have said about her..

Paul Newman:

"The most beautiful italian actress of the century.She was an extremely complex and gifted woman. It was so unfortunate that the roles she was asked to play rarely demanded what I know she had to offer"

James Dean:

"Pier is a rare girl, I respect her.Unlike most Hollywood girls, she's real and genuine"

Kirk Douglas:

"She had huge dark eyes and a refreshing innocence. I became completely enamored by her"

Fred Zinnemann:

"She has a God-given ability to transmit emotion without seeming to do anything, and an unerring instinct for the truth"

Theodore Strauss:

"In Pier Angeli, a nineteen-year-old Italian girl, Hollywood has found an actress who eludes the town's traditional classifications and whose unvarnished beauty and instinctive talent have already caused her to be called "Little Garbo"

Vittorio De Sica:

"This is not an actress, this is a real human being with an animal quality. There is purity of soul - and an intelligence; she absorbs and she executes. It is material with which you can do anything"

Cornel Lucas (Hollywood Photographer)

"Her beauty was such, even with but a brief glimpse as she walked towards me, that it quite literally took my breath away"