When she met James Dean, she fell in love with him. But her mother was very much against their relationship because Jimmy wasn't a Catholic. They broke up and in 1954 Pier married Vic Damone (an Italian singer). They were married for 4 years and had one son. Later Pier married again, this time with Armando Trovajoli, whom she divorced in 1969.
In 1971 she appeared on the silver screen for the last time in the movie 'Octaman'. That same year, on September 10, she was found dead in her Beverly Hills home of a drug overdose (barbiturates). Before she died, it is said that she wrote that James Dean was the only man she ever really loved.
The Million Dollar Nickle (1948)
Teresa (1951)
The Light Touche (1951)
The Devil Makes Three (1952)
Sombrero (1953)
The Sotry of Three Lovers (1953)
Flame and the Flesh (1954)
The Silver Chalice (1955)
Port Afrique (1956)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
The Vintage (1957)
Marry Andrew (1958)
Musketeers of the Sea (1960)
The Angry Silence (1960)
SOS Pacific (1960)
White Slave Ship (1962)
Sodom and Gomorrah (1963)
M.M.M. 83 (1965)
One Stepp to Hell (1968)
Code Name: Red Roses (1969)
Every Man A King (1970)
Octaman (1971)