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/* the youthful Pier Angeli building up to a terrific letdown in her romance with the worldly Kirk Douglas?
by MAUREEN MILLER
HEARTBREAK FOR PIER?
When sheltered, innocent Pier Angeli fell desperately in love with Kirk Douglas, it wasn't so much the 16-year difference in their ages that made Hollywood raise its collective eyebrows, but the difference in types between the Younger-Than-Springtime Pier and Kirk, one of the most worldly-wise, "love-'em-and-leave-'em" playboys in that cynical town.
Pier and the cagey, attentive but elusive Kirk first met when he went to MGM to co-star with her in "Equilibrium," one of the episodes in "The Story Of Three Loves." No one expected anything but professional and fatherly attention from him to the girl, shy as a young fawn, who, she says, was so scared on her first day in MGM's commissary "that I sit stiff like a rod and cannot swallow a bite. Finally, when all the peoples came up to be introduced to me, I get under the table and cry like a leetle baby."
Nevertheless, soon word seeped out of a red hot romance between the two. "It's publicity-inspired and will peter out soon as the film is finished," speculated the cynical. But, strangely enough, it didn't. For when Kirk went to Columbia to make "The Juggler," impulsive, apparently infatuated Pier eluded the vigilant chaperonage of Mama Pierangeli and held hands with Kirk at lunch in little Italian restaurants near the studio. And when Kirk went to Europe for films, Pier and her family followed on vacation to their former home, Rome. Again Pier and Kirk managed stolen moments together, although always accompanied by Pier's mother, (continued on pace 53)
Pier has to grow up a lot before she is emotionally mature.
Pier chatting with Lana Turner, her co-star in "Flame And The Flesh," at a party in their honor in Rome.
Once in Rome, Pier lost no time in getting together with Kirk. Visited him between scenes of "Ulysses."
While making "The Juggler," with Milly Vitale in Israel, Kirk flew to Italy for rendezvous with Pier.