[citation needed] In 1938, a year before the outbreak of war, Palmer emigrated with her parents to the United States.

She continued in 1944 with Days of Glory, opposite Gregory Peck, and later that year, Lady on a Train.

In her later years, Palmer wrote a number of unproduced television screenplays, often using the pseudonym Eliot Parker White.

Her papers, covering the years 1922–1975, are held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

[5] Palmer died of cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on 6 September 1981,[2] the day after her 64th birthday.