And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Different Anonymous here, from imdb trivia: “In a 1989 television interview with Skip E. Lowe, actor John Ericson and his wife, actress Karen Ericson, claimed that Pier Angeli did not commit suicide. They said that her twin sister, actress Marisa Pavan, told them Pier had gotten sick. A doctor came to the house and gave her medication that she had a negative reaction to; her tongue swelled and she choked to death. The reaction, however, was delayed, so she died after the doctor had left her house. The rumors quickly spread that she had taken her own life.“
Pier looks like a sweet, innocent angel, but she wound up dying of a drug overdose 50 years ago at 39.
ReplyDeleteAny idea if that medallion on her wrist is anything but decoration?
ReplyDeleteWasn’t she dating James Dean when he died?
ReplyDeleteIMDb says yes, while she was in the second year of marriage to her first husband.
DeleteParty Girl. Life in the fast lane, then crash.
I thought James Dean was light in the shoes if you know what I mean. A friend of Judy so to speak.
DeleteFooled me - I thought that was a young Donna Reed (It's A Wonderful Life). She certainly is easy on the eyes - tragic ending.
ReplyDeleteDifferent Anonymous here, from imdb trivia:
ReplyDelete“In a 1989 television interview with Skip E. Lowe, actor John Ericson and his wife, actress Karen Ericson, claimed that Pier Angeli did not commit suicide. They said that her twin sister, actress Marisa Pavan, told them Pier had gotten sick. A doctor came to the house and gave her medication that she had a negative reaction to; her tongue swelled and she choked to death. The reaction, however, was delayed, so she died after the doctor had left her house. The rumors quickly spread that she had taken her own life.“
Not sure why my comment was deleted. It was a picture of her from 2019 with fluorescent blue hair and crazy makeup that’s all.
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