Trivia

She was a guest at the house of Tyrone Power on May 19, 1946 when Primula Niven, wife of actor David Niven, fell down a flight of stairs, sustaining injuries that would later lead to her death.

Gave birth to her son Carey Harrison, with Rex Harrison, in 1944.

An extremely gifted writer, Palmer's autobiography is entitled "Change Lobsters and Dance" (1976) and her novel "The Red Raven" (1978) -- about a European love triangle -- also received rave reviews.

Took her surname from an English actress she admired.

After studying drama in Berlin, she flew to Paris due to Nazi takeover in 1933.

Returned to Germany in 1954, where she became one of the biggest postwar stars.

Was good friends with Laurence Olivier.

Second child of Dr. Alfred Peiser, a German Jewish surgeon, and Rose Lissman, an Austrian Jewish actress. She had two sisters, Irene and Hilde.

During shooting for her first German movie Feu d'artifice (1954), she would repeatedly start to talk in English and forget the correct German terms for certain words such as "wig" and "cameraman", because she had not been in Germany for over 20 years.

In the early 1950s, she appeared in the Broadway play "Bell, Book and Candle" together with her first husband Rex Harrison. The cat portraying the magical feline "Piewacket" hated her, so she had to be very careful with it unless she wanted bad scratches on her hands and arms.

Sister of the character actress and singer Irene Prador

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7013 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.

Had a 30 acre farm 3,000 foot above Lake Zurich in Switzerland.

Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, directly across the street from the Freedome Mausoleum.

Wrote a novel Night Music published in 1983 and her autobiography, Change Lobsters and Dance.

Lilli Palmer passed away on January 27, 1986, three months away from what would have been her 72nd birthday on May 24.

She was a junior table tennis champion of Europe.

Appeared on the Broadway stage with husband Rex Harrison in Bell Book and Candle in 1955.

Her father held the Iron Cross for services to country in the First World War.

She married film star Rex Harrison and had a son Carey who's a writer and has written over 20 plays.

She painted and wrote as well as acted. She came from a cultured Jewish family. She was a surgeon in a Jewish hospital.