Highly rare vintage signature in blue fountain pen on 2.25 x 4.5-inch portion of an off-white sheet, acquired in-person in the 1950s. In good condition and ideal for matting with a favorite photograph of the star. Before her tragic suicide by overdose at the age of 39, which followed a series of disastrous relationships, gorgeous Sardinian leading actress Pier Angeli dazzled and charmed in films like Tomorrow Is Too Late (1950), The Light Touch (1952), The Story of Three Loves (1953), Mam'zelle Nitouche (1954), Flame and the Flesh (1954), The Silver Chalice (1954), Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), Port Afrique (1956), The Vintage (1957), Merry Andrew (1958), SOS Pacific (1959), The Angry Silence (1960), White Slave Ship (1961), Sodom and Gomorrah (1962), Panic in Bangkok (1964), Battle of the Bulge (1965), and the sci-fi opus Octaman (1971).

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