Happy Birthday Pier Angeli (1932 - 1971)

Happy Birthday to Pier Angeli, the Italian star of such films as Somebody Up There Likes Me (1958) with Paul Newman; Merry Andrew (1958) with Danny Kaye and Battle of the Bulge (1965).  Her life ended on September 10, 1971 as Pier was found dead of a barbiturate overdose in her Beverly Hills home. She was only 39 years old.