i love this movie especially the the third segment feature pier angeli . she really do her best portray a suicidal widow of a holocaust victim who become a trapeze artist after she be save from drown by kirk douglas character . i be pretty sure that she rely on her own childhood in rome for inspiration . she grow up in rome when world war ii be occur . her emotional scene be the best . i can see why kirk douglas fell in love with her . it be hard to believe she be only nineteen when she film the movie . it be the first color film she do . i think it be be remember by devoted anna maria pierangeli fan for year to come .