- Died in Carmarillo, California state hospital for the mentally insane.
- Had a sister, Katherine Palmer.
- She claimed that her father named her after Corliss engine at an electrical plant where he was a superintendent.
- Prior to her rise to fame as an actress, she was a cigar counter salesperson at a hotel in Macon, Georgia. She revealed in a serialized newspaper article in 1933 that she also had worked at a grocery store, jewelry store and a movie theater, in Macon. She was fifteen years old at the time.
- Her first husband, Eugene V. Brewster, was a multi-millionaire fan magazine publisher. Brewster used his influence to advance her acting career and to get her various product endorsements. She was his third wife.
- [March 9, 1926] Ordered to pay $200,000 in damages to Eleanor Brewster of New York for alienating the affections of her husband, Eugene V. Brewster. Palmer and Brewster married the following December.
- In 1933, she was named as the 'other woman' in an alienation suit filed by Estelle A. Cohen, wife of scenarist Albert J. Cohen.
- She claimed to have been inspired to pursue movie stardom while working at a cigar stand at the Hotel Dempsey in Macon, Georgia. She entered a photo into a beauty contest for one of the magazines that the cigar stand carried.
- Married Eugene V. Brewster within 24 hours of the finalizing of his divorce from his first wife.
- Hospitalized in San Francisco for alcohol abuse in 1933.
- A 1933 newspaper report about her hospitalization indicated that she was using the alias Edith Mason. She had recently attempted a comeback in films using that name.
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