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Pier Angeli, Kirk Douglas share the same realistic viewpoint off life
why
they fell so in love
BY MICHAEL SHERIDAN
Sweet
I^jday in Hollywood, there isn't anyone who wouldn't like to see a happy ending to the romantic attachment and wooing of two of the most popular and eligible players in the movie industry . . . Pier Angeli and Kirk Douglas.
When wedding bells ring in Hollywood, the music often has a tinny, hollow sound, but chances are that if, and when, they ring for Pier and Kirk, the tune will be a soft, harmonious and encouraging one.
While perhaps on the surface it seems odd that Pier Angeli and Kirk Douglas should fall in love with each other, and perhaps Hollywood may shake its head and wonder how it happened and if it can last, basically it has every chance of succeeding.
Both Pier and Kirk have characters and temperaments that complement each other remarkably well. For instance, they both like children. Kirk counts the days and months until his two sons can be with him, cheerfully gives up all social engagements in favor of being a father. :. Pier today is no different from the little 12-year-old girl in Italy who prayed for a baby to mother and love.
TThey think alike, too, on how to raise children. Kirk says, "My boys have got to be tough. They have to learn to take knocks in life, but I don't want them to have as hard a time as I had. There must be a way to teach them with love and security how to stand the bad breaks everyone gets."
Pier, also, thinks discipline and regard for authority is not a bad thing. "When there is love in the home, the children are happy to be there and do not want to go outside," she says softly. "Too much freedom is not good until you know how to use it. Perhaps sometimes I would have liked more freedom than I was allowed to have, but in my home there was so much love and affection that it was not hard to give up freedom."
According to Hollywood, it is not surprising that Kirk should be head-over-heels about Pier. Who isn't? But what, they wonder, does she see in him, after her dates with young John Ericson, Arthur Loew, Jr., David Schine and the rest?
Pier herself provides the answer. "In Europe," she says simply, "we expect to marry men, someone we can respect and look up to. In America, your men are like little boys. A boy of 17 or 18 in Europe is already mature and independent, but here, such a boy is still a child."
Probably this is Kirk's greatest appeal for Pier — he is certainly a man, with maturity and self-resp*ect. He is deeply in earnest about his career, determined to do his work well and honestly. While many people say Pier would be willing to give up her (continued on pace 56
unspoiled on the surface, Pier is surprisingly mature about men.pi
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