Lilli Palmer
Gender: Female
Born: 24th May 1914
Died: 27th January 1986
Nationality: Germany, United States of America
TV programs: The Zoo Gang
Movies: Body and Soul, Les Amants de Montparnasse, The Rake's Progress, De Sade, The Pleasure of His Company, The Gentle Sex, Sebastian, The Counterfeit Traitor, Edgar Allan Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue, Cloak and Dagger, Conspiracy of Hearts, Miracle of the White Stallions, Chamber of Horrors, The Other Side of the Wind, But Not for Me, Adorable Julia, Torpedo Bay, Lotte in Weimar, Secret Agent, Night Hair Child, La residencia, The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, Mädchen in Uniform, A Girl Must Live, The Last of Mrs. Cheney, The Four Poster, Crackerjack, The Holcroft Covenant, Operation Crossbow, Nobody Runs Forever, The Boys from Brazil, Beware of Pity, Beware of Pity, Wolf's Clothing, The Great Barrier, English Without Tears, Sunset in Vienna, The First Offence, Thunder Rock, No Minor Vices, My Girl Tisa, The Diary of Anne Frank, Anastasia: The Czar's Last Daughter
Lilli Palmer (24 May 1914 – 27 January 1986), born Lilli Marie Peiser, was a German actress. She won the Volpi Cup, the Deutscher Filmpreis three times, and was nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award.
Palmer, who took her surname from an English actress she admired, was one of three daughters born to Dr. Alfred Peiser, a German Jewish surgeon, and Rose Lissman, an Austrian Jewish stage actress in Posen, Prussia, Germany (now Poznań, Poland). When Lilli was four her family moved to Berlin-Charlottenburg. She studied drama in Berlin before fleeing to Paris in 1933 following the Nazi takeover. While performing in cabarets, she attracted the attention of British talent scouts and was offered a contract by the Gaumont Film Company. She made her screen debut in Crime Unlimited (1935) and appeared in British films for the next decade.
In 1943, she married actor Rex Harrison and followed him to Hollywood in 1945. She signed with Warner Brothers and appeared in several films, notably Cloak and Dagger (1946) and Body and Soul (1947). She also periodically appeared in stage plays as well as hosting her own television series in 1951. Harrison and Palmer appeared together in the hit Broadway
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