What they have said about her..

Paul Newman:

"The most beautiful italian actress of the century"

James Dean:

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

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"