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Angeli, Pier. (1932–1971) [Hastings, Lowell "Count". (1916 - 1993)]. Signed Photograph to Lowell "Count" Hastings.
Signed photograph of the Italian-born actress who in her American cinematic debut won a Golden Globe Award for her role in the 1951 film Teresa. Doubleweight photograph wearing a glamorous beret similar to the one she wore on the 1956 cover of LIFE magazine. Signed and inscribed "To Count Hastings / Best wishes always...and lots of luck! Pier Angeli / Mrs. Damone." Two medium horizontal creases, tiny stain to left margin, else fine. 8 x 10 inches; 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
As a teenager, Angeli won the prestigious Nastro d’Argento award for best actress for her turn in Tomorrow Is Too Late. In short order she was starring opposite Gene Kelly, in The Devil Makes Three (1952), Kirk Douglas, in The Story of Three Loves (1953), and screen newcomer Paul Newman in Silver Chalice (1954). In 1954, she had a passionate romance with James Dean, which she described as a "Romeo and Juliet" love. It was thwarted by her mother and studio pressure, leading to a forced marriage to singer Vic Damone. She later confessed, "The man I married was not the man I loved. Jimmy was the one". She starred with Newman again in the 1956 hit Somebody Up There Likes Me, and continued on a streak until her tragic early death of a barbituate overdose in 1971/ Newman said: “[She was] the most beautiful Italian actress of the century. She was an extremely complex and gifted woman. It was so unfortunate that the roles she was asked to play rarely demanded what I know she had to offer.”
Lowell Hastings, aka “Count” Hastings, aka “Red” Hastings was a well-known American jazz and rhythm & blues saxophone player, who played regularly with Earl Bostic, Lucky Millinder, Illinois Jacquet, Tiny Bradshaw, Panama Francis, Little Willie John and Louis Jordan. A hugely experienced tenor sax man, he is probably best known for his 1949 – 1951 spell with the Earl Bostic group.
Angeli, Pier. (1932–1971) [Hastings, Lowell "Count". (1916 - 1993)]. Signed Photograph to Lowell "Count" Hastings.
Signed photograph of the Italian-born actress who in her American cinematic debut won a Golden Globe Award for her role in the 1951 film Teresa. Doubleweight photograph wearing a glamorous beret similar to the one she wore on the 1956 cover of LIFE magazine. Signed and inscribed "To Count Hastings / Best wishes always...and lots of luck! Pier Angeli / Mrs. Damone." Two medium horizontal creases, tiny stain to left margin, else fine. 8 x 10 inches; 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
As a teenager, Angeli won the prestigious Nastro d’Argento award for best actress for her turn in Tomorrow Is Too Late. In short order she was starring opposite Gene Kelly, in The Devil Makes Three (1952), Kirk Douglas, in The Story of Three Loves (1953), and screen newcomer Paul Newman in Silver Chalice (1954). In 1954, she had a passionate romance with James Dean, which she described as a "Romeo and Juliet" love. It was thwarted by her mother and studio pressure, leading to a forced marriage to singer Vic Damone. She later confessed, "The man I married was not the man I loved. Jimmy was the one". She starred with Newman again in the 1956 hit Somebody Up There Likes Me, and continued on a streak until her tragic early death of a barbituate overdose in 1971/ Newman said: “[She was] the most beautiful Italian actress of the century. She was an extremely complex and gifted woman. It was so unfortunate that the roles she was asked to play rarely demanded what I know she had to offer.”
Lowell Hastings, aka “Count” Hastings, aka “Red” Hastings was a well-known American jazz and rhythm & blues saxophone player, who played regularly with Earl Bostic, Lucky Millinder, Illinois Jacquet, Tiny Bradshaw, Panama Francis, Little Willie John and Louis Jordan. A hugely experienced tenor sax man, he is probably best known for his 1949 – 1951 spell with the Earl Bostic group.