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Maria Palmer

Maria Palmer

Actor · 1917 – 1981 · Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

This lovely Austrian-born actress was born (in 1917) and raised in Vienna, performing as a child on stage and appearing in various productions for the renowned Max Reinhardt. Trained in dance, she was a member of the Bodenwieser Ensemble, a European troupe. Following a few high school plays and dance recitals, she went on to study drama and voice at the Vienna Conservatory. Maria arrived in the United States at the outbreak of war in 1938 and first performed on the New York stage, notably in the 1942 production of "The Moon Is Down." Spotted for films, she was one of many foreign actresses Hollywood took in at the time to fill their quota of exotic mystery ladies in war-era intrigue and film noir. She made her debut in Mission to Moscow (1943) for Warner Bros. and continued on freelancing for other studios with Days of Glory (1944), opposite Gregory Peck, Lady on a Train (1944), The Web (1947), The Other Love (1947), Strictly Dishonorable (1941), By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953), and Outcasts of the City (1958), among others. Her film career waned in the 1950s and she turned to radio, TV and commercials. She formed her own production company, Maria Palmer Enterprises, and hosted her own local Los Angeles show "Sincerely, Maria Palmer" in the early 1960s. In later years she wrote a number of unproduced teleplays, often under the pseudonym Eliot Parker White. Dying of pulmonary failure while battling cancer in 1981, she kept extensive journals of her life and career which were later available to the public. (IMDB)

Movies17

  • Movie6.2

    The Evil of Frankenstein

    1964 · 122 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Days of Glory

    1944 · 32 votes

  • Movie6.1

    The Other Love

    1947 · 19 votes

  • Movie6.1
  • Movie6.7

    Lady on a Train

    1945 · 53 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Mission to Moscow

    1943 · 21 votes

  • Movie7.1

    The Web

    1947 · 48 votes

  • Movie3.5

    Crash of Moons

    1954 · 17 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Strictly Dishonorable

    1951 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Three for Jamie Dawn

    1956 · 2 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Flight Nurse

    1953 · 4 votes

  • Movie9.0

    Rendezvous 24

    1946 · 1 votes

  • Movie10.0

    Outcasts of the City

    1958 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.8
  • Movie6.2

    13 Lead Soldiers

    1948 · 5 votes

  • Movie4.8

    Surrender

    1950 · 6 votes

  • Movie

Series5

  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

  • TV5.7

    One Step Beyond

    1959 · 15 votes

  • TV6.8

    Four Star Playhouse

    1952 · 11 votes

  • TV6.3
  • TV5.8

    The Californians

    1957 · 5 votes