{{short description|American film director}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Gail Palmer | image = | caption = Gail Palmer | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|4|4}} | birth_place = St. Clair, Michigan | occupation = Actress, producer, film director }}
'''Gail Palmer''' (also '''Gail Palmer-Slater'''<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEED61E39F937A15756C0A966958260 Hunter Thompson Told to Stand Trial On Felony Charges], ''The New York Times'', May 24, 1990</ref> born April 4, 1955) is an American former producer and director of pornographic movies in the U.S. during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Among her well-known movies are ''Hot Summer in the City'' (1976) starring Lisa Baker as a white girl who is abducted and abused by a group of black men, and the comedies ''The Erotic Adventures of Candy'' (1978) starring John Holmes and Carol Connors and ''Candy Goes to Hollywood'' (1979) starring Carol Connors and the late punk singer Wendy O. Williams.
She was featured in ''Playboy'' September 1977 as a Michigan State girl, mentioned in ''Playboy'' February 1979 in "The Year in Sex", and in an article in ''Swank'' in June 1980. Also in the late 70s she had a rock band called ''Foreplay''.<ref>[https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/s960x960/16797970_1412000762195565_3124954724799700405_o.jpg?_nc_cat=109&_nc_sid=1480c5&_nc_ohc=gn2ac56ZopMAX_za-2G&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-2.xx&tp=7&oh=9bf127c1db5abfab602669b8cb8c50e3&oe=5F914472 Unknown]{{dead link|date=August 2023 | fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> Her autobiography, ''Candy Goes to Hollywood: the Gail Palmer Story'', appeared in 1994.
She dated Harry Mohney, and after they split, she sued him in 1984 for excluding her from the profits of their movies.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/oct/23/battle-of-the-peeps---an-insider-history-of-san-di/|title=Battle of the Peeps – An Insider History of San Diego Porn Shops|author=Jay Allen Sanford|date=October 23, 2008|work=San Diego Reader}}</ref> After splitting up with Mohney, entertainment work was harder to come by, and Gail would return to Michigan, where she met and dated a physician. The couple married in 1988.<ref>[https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/s960x960/16991774_1412368108825497_6697442094753945783_o.jpg?_nc_cat=103&_nc_sid=1480c5&_nc_ohc=hpL6g4yc5mAAX95Vmjn&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-2.xx&tp=7&oh=e843211e49ebae0b1c49c8dd3e045ae7&oe=5F91B571 Unknown]{{dead link|date=August 2023 | fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>
After a visit to Hunter S. Thompson's home in 1990 she accused the writer of sexual assault; the charges were later dropped.<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEFDB153EF932A05756C0A966958260 Victory for Hunter Thompson], ''The New York Times'', May 31, 1990</ref>
In the 2006 book ''When Elvis Meets the Dalai Lama'', author Murray Silver claims to have ghostwritten Palmer's autobiography.
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