Eva Gabor

Infobox actor
name = Eva Gabor


birthdate = birth date|1919|2|11
birthplace = Budapest, Hungary
deathdate = death date and age|1995|7|4|1919|2|11
deathplace = Los Angeles, California
U.S.
spouse = Erik Drimmer (1939-1942)
Charles Isaacs (1943-1949)
John Williams (1956-1956)
Richard Brown (1959-1972)
Frank Gard Jameson (1973-1983)

Eva Gabor (February 11 1919 – July 4 1995) was a Hungarian-born actress, best known as Lisa Douglas, the wife of Eddie Albert's character Oliver Wendell Douglas, on "Green Acres". Her elder sisters, Zsa Zsa Gabor and the late Magda Gabor, were also actresses and socialites.

Marriages

Like her sisters, Eva Gabor was known for her string of marriages; she had five:
#1939-1942: Eric Drimmer, a Swedish physician
#1943-1950: Charles Isaacs
#1956-1956: John Williams, an American physician
#1959-1972: Richard Brown
#1973-1983: Frank Gard Jameson

Death

Eva Gabor died on July 4, 1995, aged 76, from respiratory failure and pneumonia in Los Angeles, California following an accident in which she lost her balance and fell into her bathtub in Mexico, where she had been on vacation.

Although the youngest of the three sisters, she was the first to die.On April 1 1997, her 100-year-old mother, Jolie, died, unaware of Eva's death. On June 6 1997 her elder sister Magda died from renal failure.

Interment

Eva Gabor is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California. She is buried near her "Green Acres" co-star Eddie Albert, who died on May 26 2005, aged 99.

Filmography

*"Forced Landing" (1941)
*"New York Town" (1941)
*"Pacific Blackout" (1941)
*"Star Spangled Rhythm" (1942)
*"A Royal Scandal" (1945)
*"The Wife of Monte Cristo" (1946)
*"Song of Surrender" (1949)
*"Love Island" (1952)
*"Paris Model" (1953)
*"Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl" (1954)
*"The Mad Magician" (1954)
*"The Last Time I Saw Paris" (1954)
*"Artists and Models" (1955)
*"My Man Godfrey" (1957)
*"The Truth About Women" (1957)
*"Don't Go Near the Water" (1957)
*"Gigi" (1958)
*"It Started with a Kiss" (1959)
*"A New Kind of Love" (1963)
*"Youngblood Hawke" (1964)
*"The Aristocats" (1970) (voice)
*"The Rescuers" (1977) (voice)
*"Nutcracker Fantasy" (1979) (voice)
*"The Princess Academy" (1987)
*"The Rescuers Down Under" (1990) (voice)
*"The People vs. Zsa Zsa Gabor" (1991) (documentary)

Television work

*"The Eva Gabor Show" (1953-1954)
*"Mickey and the Contessa" (1963) (unsold pilot)
*"Green Acres" (1965-1971)
*"Wake Me When The War Is Over" (1969)
*"Almost Heaven" (1978)
*"Tales of the Klondike" (1981) (miniseries)
*"The Edge of Night" (cast member in 1983)
*"Bridges to Cross" (1986) (canceled after 3 months)
*"Return to Green Acres" (1990)
*"The Legend of the Beverly Hillbillies" (1993)

References

* "Orchids & Salami", by Eva Gabor, Doubleday, 1954.
* "Gaborabilia", by Anthony Turtu and Donald F. Reuter, Three Rivers Press, 2001. ISBN 0-609-80759-5

External links

*imdb|0001247
*tvtome person|8161
*findagrave|1337
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms98JPwKOB4 Eva Gabor interview]
* [http://www.tcm.turner.com/thismonth/article.jsp?cid=62607&mainArticleId=62604 "Eva Gabor and New York stockbroker, Richard Brown"]
* [http://www.helium.com/items/658323-biography-eva-gabor "Biography: Eva Gabor"]

Persondata
NAME = Gabor, Eva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Gabor, Éva
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Actress and businesswoman
DATE OF BIRTH = February 11 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH = Budapest, Hungary
DATE OF DEATH = July 4 1995
PLACE OF DEATH = Los Angeles, California, USA