Highly rare vintage blue fountain pen signature on a 2x3-inch tan card, acquired in-person by an inveterate London-based collector in the 1950s. In good condition, with some minor toning. 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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