Maria Palmer

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Maria Palmer , born Maria Pichler , (born September 5, 1917 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † September 6, 1981 in Los Angeles , United States ) was an Austrian-born, American stage and film actress .

Live and act

Born Maria Pichler, grew up in Vienna and was already three years old with children's roles both on stage (under the direction of Max Reinhardt , for example in his Das Mirakel ) and in front of a camera in 1923 (in Desider Kertesz's fairy tale film Rumpelstilzchen ). She had an early adult role in George Bernard Shaw's The Doctor at the Crossroads . In addition, Maria Pichler received dance lessons from Gertrud Bodenwieser and was a member of the Bodenwieser dance group. Maria Pichler received further training at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts . As a result of the annexation to National Socialist Germany in March 1938, her father (he had been imprisoned by the Nazis for “illegal social democratic activities”) decided to flee with the entire family. On August 30, 1938, 20-year-old Maria Pichler set foot on American soil for the first time in New York.

The young artist took her first steps on the US stages, initially under the name Maria Pichler, under the direction of Herbert Berghof in emigrant performances, for example as a member of the Refugee Artists Group in the revue From Vienna (June to August 1939) and in Reunion in New York (February to May 1940). From April to June 1942 she received her first classical speaking role in the anti-Nazi drama The Moon is Down (based on the eponymous model by John Steinbeck ) , now under the pseudonym Maria Palmer, which is easier to understand for American ears . In the same year Maria Palmer moved to Los Angeles and took part in supporting roles in a number of mostly less important Hollywood films and various television productions over the next decade and a half. Sporadically she returned to New York on Broadway (in May 1948 in the short-term flop The Vigil and as the second cast of Edith Frank in the popular hit The Diary of Anne Frank , October 1955 to June 1957).

When there were no film or theater offers, Maria Palmer turned to radio, television and advertising. She briefly ran her own production company, Maria Palmer Enterprises, and presented her own radio show in Los Angeles Sincerely, Maria Palmer , in the early 1960s . In addition, the artist wrote a number of manuscripts for television films, but they were never implemented. Palmer used the pseudonym Eliot Parker White. Maria Pichler-Palmer died of cancer one day after her 64th birthday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Filmography

  • 1923: Rumpelstiltskin
  • 1942: Ambassador to Moscow (Mission to Moscow)
  • 1943: Days of Glory
  • 1945: Lady on a Train
  • 1946: Rendezvous 24
  • 1947: The Other Love
  • 1947: The Web
  • 1948: 13 Lead Soldiers
  • 1949: Your Show Time (TV series, two episodes)
  • 1950: Surrender
  • 1951: Strictly Dishonorable
  • 1952: Dangerous Assignment (TV series, two episodes)
  • 1953: does Marjorie get married? (By the Light of the Silvery Moon)
  • 1953: Company Panthersprung (Flight Nurse)
  • 1954: Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (TV series)
  • 1955: Kings Row (TV series, episode)
  • 1956: Three for Jamie Dawn
  • 1957: Outcasts of the City
  • 1959: The Californians (TV series, episode)
  • 1962: A Thousand Miles of Dust (TV series, two episodes)
  • 1962/63: Perry Mason (TV series, two episodes)
  • 1964/65: The Young Marrieds (TV series)
  • 1967: FBI (TV series, episode)

literature

  • Trapp, Frithjof; Mittenzwei, Werner; Rischbieter, Henning; Schneider, Hansjörg: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933–1945 / Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists . Volume 2, part 2, p. 720 f., Munich 1999
  • Christian Cargnelli, Michael Omasta (eds.): Departure into the Unknown. Lexicon, tributes, testimonials . ISBN 3854585039 . Waspennest, p. 106 f., Vienna 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maria Palmer, born 1917 on deathfigures.com. The year of birth “1924”, which can often be read (and even on her tombstone!), Is wrong.
  2. ↑ Contrary to what can be read in numerous sources, she was obviously not the sister of Lilli Palmer and Irene Prador
  3. ^ Robert Ulrich: Österreicher in Hollywood , Verlag Filmarchiv Austria Wien 2004, p. 361, ISBN 3901932291
  4. ↑ Maria Palmer's arrival in the USA
  5. ^ Maria Pichler in the Internet Broadway Database
  6. ^ Maria Palmer in the Internet Broadway Database
  7. ↑ ibid.
  8. ↑ short obituary

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personal data
SURNAME Palmer, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pichler, Maria (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American stage, film and television actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1981
Place of death Los Angeles , United States