19 Facts About Lilli Palmer

When Lilli Palmer was four years old, her family moved to Berlin-Charlottenburg.

Lilli Palmer was a junior table tennis champion as a young girl.

Lilli Palmer made her screen debut in Crime Unlimited and appeared in numerous British films for the next decade.

Lilli Palmer married British actor Rex Harrison on 25 January 1943, and travelled with him to Hollywood in 1945.

Lilli Palmer signed with Warner Brothers and appeared in several films, notably Cloak and Dagger and Body and Soul.

Lilli Palmer periodically appeared in stage plays as well as hosting her own television series in 1951.

Harrison and Lilli Palmer appeared together in the hit Broadway play Bell, Book and Candle in the early 1950s.

Lilli Palmer won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress in 1953 for The Four Poster.

Harrison and Lilli Palmer divorced in 1956; they had one son, Carey, born in 1944.

Lilli Palmer returned to Germany in 1954, where she played roles in many films and television productions.

Lilli Palmer continued to play both leading and supporting parts in the US and abroad.

Lilli Palmer starred with Fred Astaire and Debbie Reynolds in The Pleasure of His Company in 1961.

Lilli Palmer starred opposite William Holden in The Counterfeit Traitor, an espionage thriller based on fact, and opposite Robert Taylor in another true Second World War story, Disney's Miracle of the White Stallions.

Lilli Palmer published a memoir, Change Lobsters and Dance, in 1975.

Lilli Palmer wrote a full-length work of fiction presented as a novel rather than a memoir, The Red Raven, in 1978.

Lilli Palmer agreed since she was already involved with her future husband, Carlos Thompson.

Lilli Palmer was married to Argentine actor Carlos Thompson from 1957 until her death in Los Angeles from abdominal cancer in 1986 at the age of 71.

Lilli Palmer was survived by her husband, son, sisters, and her ex-husband.

Lilli Palmer is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California.