{{Short description|Italian actress (1907–1949)}} {{Distinguish|Keke Palmer}} {{Infobox person | name = Kiki Palmer | image = Kiki Palmer 1935.jpg | caption = Palmer in 1935 | birth_name = Giulia Fogliata | birth_date = {{birth date text|July 11, 1907}} | birth_place = Milan, Kingdom of Italy | death_date = {{death date and age text|August 11, 1949|July 11, 1907}} | death_place = Milan, Italy | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = Actress }}
'''Giulia Fogliata''' (July 11, 1907 – August 11, 1949), better known by her stage names '''Kiki Palmer''' and '''Daniela Palmer''', was an Italian stage, film, and radio actress.
== Life and career == Born in Milan, after an occasional acting experience at the Teatro degli Arcimboldi Palmer left her university studies in medicine to become an actress.<ref name="bio">{{cite news|last=g.g. |title=La morte di Kiki Palmer |work=Radiocorriere |date=August 21, 1949 |issue=34|page=5 |url=http://www.radiocorriere.teche.rai.it/Download.aspx?data=1949|access-date=5 December 2023}}</ref> After studying acting under Ida Carloni Talli,<ref name="bio" /> in 1931 she began using the 'Kiki Palmer' stage name.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Italian film: a who's who|last=Stewart|first=John|publisher=McFarland|year=1994|isbn=9780899507613|pages=330}}</ref> Palmer was one of the most well known Italian stage actresses of her time, and came to be highly regarded outside of Italy as well.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=146bfQNz_5sC&q=kiki+palmer&pg=PA88|title=100 caratteristi del cinema italiano: gli interpreti "minori" che hanno fatto grande il nostro cinema|last1=Giraldi|first1=Massimo|last2=Lancia|first2=Enrico|last3=Melelli|first3=Fabio|date=2006|publisher=Gremese Editore|isbn=978-88-8440-383-4|language=it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ozEOAQAAMAAJ&q=kiki+palmer+actress+italy|title=The New York Times Theater Reviews|date=1930|publisher=New York Times & Arno Press|language=en}}</ref> From 1938 to 1939, Palmer used the stagename "Palma Palmer", a name suggested to her by artist Gabriele D'Annunzio.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I_ZX1BVIPCUC&q=kiki+palmer|title=Scenario rivista mensile delle arti, della scena|date=1941|publisher=Treves|pages=316–317|language=it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Blanco y negro, Vol. 44|year=1934}}</ref>
Palmer committed suicide in Rome on August 11, 1949, after the death of her friend Eva Mangili, who she considered a second mother.<ref name="bio" />
== Personal life == Palmer was the adoptive mother of actor Renzo Palmer.
== Selected filmography ==
* ''The Wedding March'' (1934) * ''La luce del mondo'' (1935)
== External links == {{IMDb name|id=nm0658332|name=Kiki Palmer}}
== References == {{Reflist}}
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