Highly rare vintage signature in black fountain pen on 4x6-inch light green autograph album page, acquired in-person in August of 1954. In good condition, with some show-through from the writing on the opposite side and a few stray flecks of ink. 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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