Maria Palmer
17 movies · 6 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Sep 5, 1917
- Died
- Sep 6, 1981 (age 64)
- Place of birth
- Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
- Also known as
- Maria Pichler
Biography
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.
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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)
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Known for
Maria Palmer: movies and TV shows
Acting (23)
- 1964 The Evil of Frankenstein
as Rena's Mother (uncredited)
- 1959
- 1958
- 1958
- 1957
- 1957
- 1956 Three for Jamie Dawn
as Julia Karek
- 1955
- 1954 Crash of Moons
as Cotondo / Potonda
- 1953 Flight Nurse
as Captain Martha Ackerman
- 1953 Nostradamus and the Queen
as Queen Catherine de Medici
- 1953 By the Light of the Silvery Moon
as Renee LaRue
- 1952
- 1951 Joe Santa Claus
as Maria Peters
- 1951 Strictly Dishonorable
as Countess Lili Szadvany
- 1950 Surrender
as Janet Barton
- 1948 13 Lead Soldiers
as Estelle Prager, alias Estelle Gorday
- 1947 The Web
as Martha Kroner
- 1947 The Other Love
as Huberta
- 1946 Rendezvous 24
as Greta Holvig
- 1945 Lady on a Train
as Margo Martin, Circus Club Singer
- 1944 Days of Glory
as Yelena
- 1943 Mission to Moscow
as Tanya Litvinov