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For Paramount, she was in contention for the role of Anna Magnani’s daughter in The Rose Tattoo (1955), but the role went to Marisa Pavan, her twin sister. MGM lent her to Columbia for Port Afrique (1956). She returned to MGM for Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) as Paul Newman’s long-suffering wife (Angeli’s former lover, James Dean, was to play the starring role, which went to Newman after Dean’s death). Newman would later say of her: “The most beautiful Italian actress of the century. She was an extremely complex and gifted woman.
