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Biography for Zsa Zsa Gabor
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| First Name: | Zsa Zsa | | Middle Name: | | | Last Name: | Gabor | | Nickname: | | |
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February 6, 1917 |
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Briefly
Hungarian-American actress and socialite perhaps most known for her beauty and wealthy lifestyle rather than her acting career which consisted of mostly B-movies. |
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Sári Gábor on February 6, 1917) is a Hungarian-American actress and socialite, who, like her two sisters, is best known for her beauty and wealthy lifestyle.
Zsa Zsa is known for her affection for jewelry, her quick wit, as well as referring to everyone she speaks with as "dahling", but acquired a reputation for matrimony, and being famous for "being famous". Zsa Zsa is also the only Gabor sister to bear a child.
Birth:
She was born in Budapest, Hungary, the second of three daughters born to Vilmos Gábor, a soldier, and Jolie Gabor (née Janka Tilleman). The name Zsa Zsa is a nickname for Sári in her native Hungarian. She was born Sári Gábor. She was named after the then top Hungarian actress Sári Fedák, who was also called Zsa Zsa because her daughter couldn pronounce the name Sári.
Siblings:
The birth years of the Gábor sisters may be fabrications to make them appear younger. Her sisters are Magda and Éva. Zsa Zsa often claimed to have won the "Miss Hungary" beauty contest in 1936, but she was not of age when she entered the contest and was disqualified after winning. Although she did not actually win the title "Miss Hungary," she did get the part of a soubrette in a Viennese operetta titled "The Singing Dream." She played the character Violet and stage name, her true name, Sári. This was her first stage appearance and at the time, she had an affair with a man named Willi, according to her book "Zsa Zsa Gábor" written by Gerold Frank in 1960.
Husbands:
She has had nine husbands:
* Burhan Belge, press director for the foreign ministry of Turkey, later known as a writer and diplomat (1937-1941).
* Conrad Hilton, Hilton Hotel magnate (1942-1946)
* George Sanders, actor (1949-1954)
* Herbert Hutner, financial consultant (1964-1966)
* Joshua S. Cosden, Jr., oil heir and businessman, (1966-1967)
* Jack Ryan, inventor associated with the Barbie and Chatty Cathy dolls, (1975-1976)
* Michael OHara (1977-1982)
* Felipe de Alba was an invalid marriage; it was bigamous, Zsa Zsa was still married to Michael OHara, and it was performed by a ships captain at sea, but not in international waters (or as she claimed ". . . Was not far enough out to sea. . .", you have to be twelve miles out, in international waters, for a ships captains marriage to be legal). An annulment was received. (1982)
* Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, (married; 1986 - present)
Zsa Zsa herself has claimed she proposed all of her marriages.
Current Full Title: Zsa Zsa Gábor, Princess Von Anhalt, Duchess of Saxony
Francesca Hilton:
She and Conrad Hilton had one daughter, Francesca Hilton. According to Zsa Zsas book, One Lifetime Is Not Enough, Conrad Hilton raped her causing the pregnancy. Zsa Zsa is the only Gábor sister to bear a child. Also an interesting fact in One Lifetime Is Not Enough, Hedy Lamarr taught Francesca the "facts of life" at age three at Zsa Zsa and George Sanders home in Bel Air. In 2005 Zsa Zsa accused her daughter, Francesca Hilton, of larceny and fraud, and filed suit against her in a California court.
Porfirio Rubirosa:
Zsa Zsa also had a relationship with Porfirio Rubirosa, a noted Dominican international playboy and sometime diplomat. She refused to leave George Sanders to marry him, whereupon Rubirosa married Barbara Hutton (for seventy-three days) and then renewed his relationship with Zsa Zsa. In their 4 year relationship, Zsa Zsa has claimed Rubirosa proposed to her many times and she just wouldn budge. Later in the relationship they did get engaged but "Rubi" broke the engagement claiming if Zsa Zsa took a part in Death of a Scoundrel (co-starring her sometime ex. George Sanders) he would leave her.
Hollywood:
Among the movies Zsa Zsa appeared in were her starring role as singer Jane Avril in John Hustons Moulin Rouge (1952), Lili (1953), Sang et Lumières (aka Love in a hot Climate 1954) a French film that had her co-star with Daniel Gélin, Queen of Outer Space (1958) which is considered as one of the worst (or silliest) films ever made - she jokingly recalled that the only direction she was given during production was "not to laugh at the dialogue", and late film noir classic Touch of Evil (1958) with cinema giant Orson Welles. Only once did she play opposite ex-hubbie George Sanders, in the noirish Death of a Scoundrel (1956).
Decades later she had a cameo appearance as herself in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. Even though she appeared in many films, she was never really considered a successful actress, and thrived as a media personality. From the 1950s to 1970s she was a staple of television talk shows hosted by Jack Paar, Mike Douglas, Johnny Carson and Merv Griffin, where she could be counted on to be amusing, witty, and combative.
Though her movies continued, their quality did not, and her later career was as a celebrity rather than a serious actress. The Gabor sisters (competing with each other for the limited number of roles they might play with Hungarian accents) often engaged in always well-publicized "feuds," but it was Zsa Zsa who seemed to thrive on adverse publicity.
However, she managed to sustain her acting career on stage in the late 60s and 70s in Noel Cowards Blithe Spirit, Forty Carats which was her Broadway debut for Arsenic and Old Lace.
Because of her B-Movie stardom and her corresponding private life she was called Hollywoods "most expensive courtesan since Madame de Pompadour" (Ephraim Katzs "The Film Encyclopedia).
Arrest:
On June 14, 1989, Zsa Zsa was accused of slapping the face of a Beverly Hills police officer, named Paul Kramer, when he stopped her for a traffic violation [2]. She was found guilty of the assault in a well-publicized trial and sentenced to three days (72 hours) in jail (and required 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.\" [3]
Gabor poked fun at her role in the incident by way of cameo appearances in movies such as The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (wherein she slapped a police cars light that was following her and remarked "This happens every fucking time that I go shopping"), the 1993 film version of The Beverly Hillbillies (in which she claimed that the officer had slapped her in what was described as a "drive-by slapping"), and A Very Brady Sequel (wherein she gloated upon the publicity she earned from the incident), and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air (Both when Carlton accidentally slaps a cop, when the slap was meant for Will, and Zsa Zsa replies by saying "I have witnesses, it wasn me", and when Hilary asks, "Theres something that Im just dying to know," and Zsa Zsa says, "Yes, I did it...and he deserved to be slapped.")
Recent health:
Zsa Zsa was a passenger in an automobile accident that occurred November 27, 2002, that was initially reported as having sent her into a coma, but the report was in error. She was conscious by the time medical assistance arrived. She left the hospital in early January 2003, facing continued physical therapy. After this incident, VH1 made fun of her being paralyzed with her exercise video entitled "Its Simple Darling" by commenting "Its so simple, even a vegetable in a coma can do it!"
On July 7, 2005, Zsa Zsa 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 is said to be making a good recovery, given her age, and her husband is taking care of her. |
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