Lilli Micrometer caliper

Biography

Lilli Palmer was born under the name of Lilli Marie Peiser in Posen (at the time Prussian). His/her parents were and Pink Lissmann. His/her father Dr. Alfred Peiser was head doctor with the Jewish Hôpital of Berlin, his mother was actress of theater but had given up the trade immediately after engagement. Lilli had the older sister - the actress and singer Irene Prador - and another younger - Hilde. When Lilli Palmer was four years old, its family settled in Berlin Charlottenburg. Today, on the house where she lived at the time, is a commemorative plaque.

His/her father made pass to Lilli the abitur to Waldschule de Charlottenbourg (he wanted that she became doctor), but itself wanted to become actress at all costs. She thus went the morning to the college and the afternoon to the school of theater - and succeeds everywhere.

She followed courses of theater near Ilka Grüning and of Lucie Höflich to Berlin. In 1932 it began in Hessischer Landestheater from Darmstadt. In 1934 she emigrated in Paris since as Jewish she did not have any more the right to work in Germany and occurred with her Irene sister like “the Sisters Vienneses” in various nightclubs. A little later their road led them to London where she played the principal feminine role in Crime Unlimited and thus accepted its first contract with an English production company. In 1936 she played a secondary part in Four of espionage of Alfred Hitchcock.

In 1943 it Maria with the actor of theater Rex Harrison of which it had a son in 1944, Rex Carey Alfred Harrison, which teaches today in Brooklyn University. With a contract for Hollywood in the pocket, she emigrated in the USA and played there inter alia the side of Gary Cooper in Cloak and Dagger and of John Garfield in Body and Soul . The connection of Rex Harrison with the young actress Carole Landis in the suicide of which it must be implied, caused a scandal which put an end temporarily to the Hollywood career of Lilli Palmer. The Harrison couple settled in New York, where all were success in Broadway, inter alia while playing together in Bell, Book and Candle (in French: Adorable Neighbor ). After these New Yorkean successes, Hollywood could not any more be sulky them. They were found for the film The Four Posters , but constituted more one intact couple only in the fiction.

In 1954 Lilli Palmer returned to Germany and became a star of the cinema of post-war period. She played inter alia the sides of Curd Jürgens and Romy Schneider. But it is not only in Germany that she was success - in France, Great Britain and in the USA, she turned with famous actors like Clark Gable, James Mason, Jean Gabin and Charles Boyer. For its work as actress, it was rewarded by many prices, inter alia things with Filmband in Gold.

In 1956 Lilli Micrometer caliper and Rex Harrison divorced and on September 21st, 1957 Lilli Palmer remaria the writer and Argentinian actor Carlos Thompson.

In Germany, it took part also later in telefilms and series televise, like Der Kommissar , Derrick and Eine Frau bleibt eine Frau (under the name of her late grandfather it wrote some of the scenarios of them)

At a advanced age Lilli Palmer still passed for an extraordinarily beautiful woman.

In 1974 its memories Dicke Lilli appeared - gutes Kind which were a best-seller on a world level (in French like a Good small soldier , Paris 1979). Other bestsellers were DER roter Rabe in 1979 ( the red Corbel , Paris 1980; continuation of its first biography with a history which had counted much in its life: she tells there the relation in triangle between itself, her companion and her best friend) like Umarmen hat the Seine Zeit (1981; strange Shores , Paris 1982), Nachtmusik (1984), Um eine Nasenlänge (1984; In the shade of happiness , Paris 1985), Eine Frau bleibt eine Frau (1985) and Wenn der Nachtvogel schreit (which appeared in 1988 after its death).

Beside its activity of writer, Lilli Palmer was also a woman-painter who was a great success.

She succumbed to a cancer on January 27th, 1986 at the 71 years age in Los Angeles. She was buried in the intimacy. Her husband refused to reach the desire of his son and his daughters-in-law desire to make it transfer in Switzerland. Its death made run of the innumerable noises, inter alia Lilli Palmer had committed suicide. The tabloid press started with ruer on its life, then on that of Carlos Thompson.

Carlos Thompson, who was the great love of his life, committed suicide four years after his death in Buenos Aires.

Catalog of films

1933 : The First Offence : Sleeve-board
1935: Crime Unlimited : Natasha
1936 : Wolf' S Clothing : Lydia
1936 : Four of espionage ( Secret Agent ): Lilli
1937 : Sunset in Vienna : Gelda
1937 : Good Morning, Servant boys : Yvette
1937: Command Performance : Susan
1937 : The Great Barrier : Lou
1938 : Moving Furniture (TV)
1938: S-s-s-h! The Wife! (TV): The Wife
1938 : Bath H&C (TV)
1938: Crackerjack : Baronesses Von Haltz
1939: Little Ladyship (TV)
1939: has Girl Must Live : Clytie Guesses
1939: Take Two Eggs (TV)
1939: One Night, One Day… (TV): Lilli
1940 : Blind Folly : Valerie
1940: The Door with Seven Locks : Judy Lansdowne
1943 : Thunder Rock'n'roll : Melanie Kurtz
1943: Women on mission ( The Gentle Sex ): Erna Debruski
1944 : English Without Tears : Brigid Knudsen
1945: The Rake' S Progress : Rikki Krausner
1946 : Beware off Pity : Baronesses Edith de Kekesfalva
1946: Cape and dagger ( Cloak and Dagger ) of Fritz Lang: Gina
1947 : Blood and gold ( Drunk Body and ): Peg Born
1948 : My Girl Stoked : Stoked Kepes
1948: No Minor Defects : April Ashwell
1949 : Hans the sailor : Danielle, the gypsy
1951: The Long Dark Hall : Mary Groome
1952 : The Furnace Poster : Abby Edwards
1953 : The Lilli Micrometer caliper Show (series TV): Host (1951)
1954: Fireworks ( Feuerwerk ): Iduna
1956 : Teufel in Devoted henchman : Melanie
1956: The Taming off the Shrew (TV): Katherina
1956 : Anastasia - Die letzte Zarentochter : Anna Anderson (Die Unbekannte)
1956: Zwischen Zeit und Ewigkeit : Nina Bohlen
1956: Lilli Micrometer caliper Theater (series TV): Host (1956)
1957: Der Gläserne Turm : Katja Fleming
1957 : Wie ein Sturmwind : Marianne Eichler
1958 : Eine Frau, die Weiss, was sy will : Julia Klöhn, Lehrerin & Angela Cavallini
1958: Lovers of Montparnasse ( Lovers of Montparnasse (Montparnasse 19) ): Beatrice Hastings
1958: Young girls in uniform ( Mädchen in Uniform ): Fraeulein Elisabeth von Bernburg
1958: Life with two : Odette de Starenberg
1959: Goal Not for Me : Kathryn Ward
1960 : the Profession of Mrs Warren ( Frau Warrens Gewerbe ): Mrs. Warren
1960: Conspiring the ( Conspiracy off Hearts ): Mother Katharine
1961 : the Mysterious Mrs Cheney ( Frau Cheneys Ende ): Frau Cheney
1961: the Appointment of midnight : Eva/Anne Leuven
1961: The Pleasure off His Company : Katharine “Kate” Dougherty
1962: Finden sy, daß Constanze sich richtig verhält? : Constanze Calonder
1962 : Leviathan : Wife
1962 : Treason on order ( The Counterfeit Traitor ): Frau Marianne Möllendorf
1962 : Adorable Julia ( Julia, Of the bist zauberhaft ): Julia Lambert
1963: Miracle off the White Stallions : Vedena Podhajsky
1963 : Challenge in Gibraltar ( Beta Som ): Lygia da Silva
1963: difficult Amore : Hilde Brenner (segment " It serpente")
1963 : Das Große Liebesspiel : Schauspielerin
1964 : the Grain of sand : AsMarie
1965: Operation Crossbow ( Operation Crossbow ): Frieda
1965 : Adventures in love with Moll Flanders ( The Amorous Adventures off Moll Flanders ): Dutchy
1965 : Thunder of God : Marie Brassac
1966: Zwei Girls vom roten Stern : Olga Nikolaijewna
1966: the Congress has fun ( Der Kongreß amüsiert sich ): Princess Metternich
1966 : the Voyage of the father : Isabelle Quantin
1967: macabre Dance ( Paarungen ): Alice
1967: Jack off Diamonds : Cameo appearance
1967 : The Diary off Anne Frank (TV)
1967: Oedipus the King : Jocasta
1968 : Sebastian : Elsa Shahn
1968 : Warrant for arrest ( Nobody Runs Forever ): Sheila Quentin
1969: the Residence ( Residencia ): Mrs. Furnace
1969: Hardware Contract : Adrianne
1969: De Sade : Mrs. of Montreuil
1970: Skin of Torpedo : Helen
1970 : infernal Obsession ( Hauser' S Memory ) (TV): Anna To raise
1971: Murders in the Street Mortuary : Mrs. Cartwright
1972: Das Abenteuer eine Frau zu center (TV)
1972: The Other Side off the Wind : Zarah Valeska
1972 : Diabólica malicia : Dr. Viorne
1973: Eine Frau bleibt eine Frau (serial TV)
1974: Burbot in Weimar : Burbot
1974: Treffpunkt Herz (TV): Guest
1978 : These boys who came from Brazil ( The Boys from Brazil ): Esther Lieberman
1980 : Weekend (TV)
1981: Kinder (TV): Mother
1982 : Feine Gesellschaft - beschränkte Haftung : Hilde
1983 : Imaginary Friends (TV)
1985: The Holcroft Covenant : Althene Holcroft
1986 : Pierre Large the ( " Peter the Great" ) (serial TV): Natalya

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