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  • Born: 6 February 1917
  • Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary
  • Best Known As: Much-married celebrity sister of Eva Gabor

Name at birth: Sari Gabor

Though officially an actress, Zsa Zsa Gabor is more famous as a whimsical old-school celebrity sex symbol. Married nine times, Gabor made a career of joking about her man-hungry ways and her love of jewelry and furs. (She married her final husband, Prince Frederick Von Anhalt, in 1986, when he was 38 and she was 69; their marriage lasted into the 21st century.) Her film credits include the campy Queen of Outer Space (1958), Moulin Rouge (the 1951 version, not Nicole Kidman's 2001 version), and a small role as a nightclub manager in the Orson Welles classic Touch of Evil (1959). Gabor gained fresh notoriety in 1989 after she slapped a Beverly Hills policeman who pulled her over for a traffic violation. Another traffic accident, in 2002, left her temporarily in a coma. Gabor's sisters Magda and Eva are also well known; Eva played the scatterbrained wife in the 1960s TV series Green Acres.

Zsa Zsa Gabor was Miss Hungary of 1936... Her true year of birth is, not surprisingly, a matter of some confusion; most sources agree on 1917, but others list 1918 or 1923... She played the villainess Minerva in the final episode of the 1960s TV series Batman... Gabor is the mother of actress Francesca Hilton, her daughter with her ex-husband Conrad Hilton... Frederick Von Anhalt made waves in 2007 when, after the death of Anna Nicole Smith, he claimed he was the father of Smith's infant daughter Dannie Lynn. Von Anhalt said he and Smith had carried on a multi-year affair during his marriage to Gabor.

 
 
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Zsa Zsa Gabor

  • Born: Feb 06, 1918 in Budapest, Hungary
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '50s-'60s, '80s-'90s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
  • Career Highlights: Moulin Rouge, Lili, Lovely to Look At
  • First Major Screen Credit: Lovely to Look At (1952)

Biography

Hungarian actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is the prototypical "professional celebrity": famous merely for being famous. She started her stage career in 1933 and three years later won the title of Miss Hungary. She followed her sister Eva to America in 1941, but unlike Eva, did not devote herself to acting. Rather, she inaugurated her lifelong career of collecting jewelry, husbands, and front-page publicity. Among her many spouses were actor George Sanders (who much later in life would marry her sister Magda) and hotel magnate Conrad Hilton. Operating on the theory that any publicity is good publicity, Gabor has kept herself in the public eye through a series of contretemps with the law. She was once arrested and fined for using profanity in public; she was sued by a "fantasy" theme park thanks to her cavalier attitude toward written contracts; and, in 1990, she provided a cornucopia of material for innumerable nightclub comics by slapping a traffic cop who had given her a speeding ticket (an act which she herself capitalized upon with cameo roles in The Naked Gun 2 1/2 [1991] and The Beverly Hillbillies [1993]). Gabor also joined the ranks of the politically incorrect for flaunting her many animal-fur coats and for refusing to appear in a nightclub when wheelchair-bound patrons threatened to impede her performance. Gabor also made a few movies. She actually came close to a performance in Moulin Rouge (1952), but the bulk of her cinematic achievements were along the lines of The Girl in the Kremlin (1957) -- in which her head was shaved -- and the imperishable Queen of Outer Space (1958). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

 
Quotes By: Zsa Zsa Gabor

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"Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do."

"You never really know a man until you have divorced him."

"I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house."

"Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5, 000 Gideon Bibles."

"Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended."

"A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished."

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Wikipedia: Zsa Zsa Gabor
Zsa-Zsa Gábor
Birth name Sári Gábor
Born February 6 1917 (1917--) (age 90)
Flag of Austria-Hungary Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Spouse(s) Burhan Belge (1937-1941)
Conrad Hilton (1942-1947)
George Sanders (1949-1954)
Herbert Hutner (1962-1966)
Joshua S. Cosden, Jr. (1966-1967)
Jack Ryan (1975-1976)
Michael O'Hara (1976-1982)
Felipe de Alba (1983-1983)
Frédéric von Anhalt (1986- )

Zsa Zsa Gábor born Sári Gábor (born February 6, 1917) is a Hungarian-American actress and socialite.

Biography

Early life

Gábor, the second of three daughters, was born Sári Gábor in Budapest, daughter of Jolie Gabor (née Tilleman), a manager, and Vilmos Gábor, a soldier.[1] She had two sisters, Magda and Éva, actresses and socialites. Gabor's mother was born Jewish and was related to Annette Tillemann, the wife of politician Tom Lantos.[2] Gabor was named after the then top Hungarian actress Sári Fedák, also called Zsa Zsa because her daughter was unable to pronounce the name Sári, which is Magyar (the indigenous Hungarian language) for Sarah. (The Gábors's family name is Magyar for Gabriel; hence, "Sári Gábor," her real name, is Magyar for "Sarah Gabriel.") Following studies at a Swiss boarding-school Gábor won the Miss Hungary beauty contest in 1936, but was disqualified for being underage. On a trip to Vienna in the same year she was discovered by the famous tenor Richard Tauber and was invited to sing the soubrette rôle in his new operetta Der singende Traum ("The Singing Dream") at the Theater an der Wien, her first stage appearance. At the time she had a romance with a composer named Willi Schmidt-Kentner, according to the 1960 "bio-autobiography" Zsa Zsa Gábor, by Gerold Frank.

Personal life

Gabor has been married nine times. She was divorced seven times, and one marriage was annulled. Her husbands, in chronological order, are:

In 1974 Gabor bought her two-story and basement Bel Air home with an eccentric-looking French roof, built by Howard Hughes, from Elvis Presley. There is a magnificent view of Los Angeles from the pool area. She was not married at the time of the purchase making it possible, according to Zsa Zsa, to add a three-tiered closet thirty feet long, twelve feet wide, and fourteen feet high. The closet contained over 5,000 garments that were sorted through and given to charities, with the exception of her classically designed gowns, every one to two years—about 30,000 dollars worth of designer clothing every year.[citations needed]

Gabor is the only Gábor sister to bear a child. According to Gabor's book One Lifetime Is Not Enough her pregnancy resulted from her being raped by Conrad Hilton. Hilton and Gabor's only child, born after their divorce, is Francesca Hilton (Gabor) born 10 March 1947. In 2005, Zsa Zsa accused her daughter, Francesca, of larceny and fraud, and filed a lawsuit against her in a California court.[3]

In the late 1950s, Zsa Zsa had dinner with Frank Sinatra at LaRue's on the Sunset Strip and spent only one romantic evening with him.

Gabor also had a relationship with Porfirio Rubirosa, a noted Dominican international playboy and sometime diplomat. She refused to leave George Sanders to marry Rubirosa, whereupon he married Barbara Hutton (for seventy-three days) and then renewed his relationship with Zsa Zsa. Zsa Zsa claims that Rubirosa proposed to her every time he could, and would change the subject when she refused. She just wouldn't budge. They had a four-year relationship and were at one time engaged. Technically, Zsa Zsa broke the engagement when "Rubi" claimed he would break the engagement if she took a part in the movie Death of a Scoundrel which starred her ex-husband George Sanders.

Gabor's initial fame came from her work as an actress, and grew from her public appearances in the 1970s and 1980s.

Legal difficulties

The 1989 mugshot of Zsa Zsa Gabor.
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The 1989 mugshot of Zsa Zsa Gabor.

On June 14, 1989 Gabor was accused of slapping the face of a Beverly Hills police officer named Paul Kramer when he stopped her for a traffic violation.[4] She was found guilty of the assault in a well-publicized trial and sentenced to three days (72 hours) in the El Segundo jail--and the judge required her to pay $13,000 in court costs. She testified that her behavior had been provoked by the officer, who she said had behaved extremely rudely and insulted her with obscenities. According to the Rotten Library, "Gabor later complain[ed] that she was denied a jury of her peers, saying 'It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.'"[5]

Gabor poked fun at her role in the incident in various cameo appearances:

  • In the 1991 film The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, Zsa Zsa was pulled over by the police car at the end of the opening credits. She then proceeded to step out of the car and slap the red light, then walked away, muttering, "Ach, this happens every fucking time when I go shopping."
  • In the 1993 film version of The Beverly Hillbillies: she claimed that the officer had slapped her in what was described as a "drive-by slapping."
  • In A Very Brady Sequel: she gloated upon the publicity she earned from the incident.
  • In the November 18, 1991, season 2, installment 10 of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: when Carlton accidentally slapped a cop when trying to slap his cousin Will, Zsa Zsa replied by saying, "I have witnesses, it wasn't me." Hilary subsequently asked, "There's something that I'm just dying to know." Zsa Zsa responded by saying, "Yes, I did it...and he deserved to be slapped."

Recent health

Gabor was a passenger in an automobile accident that occurred on November 27, 2002. She was initially reported, incorrectly, as being in a coma: she was conscious by the time medical assistance arrived. She left the hospital in early January 2003 but required continued physical therapy. She sued, and was awarded $2 million.

On July 7, 2005, Gabor suffered a massive stroke leaving her in critical condition at a local hospital. She underwent surgery to remove a blockage in her carotid artery. She returned home on July 15 and was said to be making a good recovery.

In early September of 2007, Gabor underwent surgery to deal with after-effects of her previous stroke. On September 18 2007 Gabor underwent successful surgery to treat a leg infection which developed as a result of her immobility.[1]

Appearances

Films

(Incomplete list)

Television work

(Incomplete list. Gabor has made hundreds of television appearances.)

Plays

(Incomplete list. Gabor has starred in several plays.)

Bibliography

  • Zsa Zsa Gábor, My Story Written for Me by Gerold Frank, The World Publishing Company, 1960.
  • How to Catch a Man, How to Keep a Man, and How to Get Rid of a Man, by Zsa Zsa Gábor, Doubleday, 1970.
  • One Lifetime Is Not Enough, by Zsa Zsa Gabor, assisted by, edited by, and put into proper English by Wendy Leigh, Delacorte Press, 1991. ISBN 0-385-29882-X
  • Gaborabilia, by Anthony Turtu and Donald F Reuter, Three Rivers Press, 2001. ISBN 0-609-80759-5

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