Gabor, Eva
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Birthname | Éva Gábor | ||||
born on | 11 February 1919 at 12:30 (= 12:30 PM ) | ||||
Place | Budapest, Hungary, 47n30, 19e05 | ||||
Timezone | MET h1e (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
Hungarian-American actress, the youngest of three beautiful, glamorous European imports to Hollywood, with older sisters Magda and Sari (Zsa Zsa). Though the three were much-married and the focus of a great deal of frothy gossip, Eva actually had a long list of film and stage credits, and from 1965 to 1971 co-starred with Eddie Albert in the highly successful TV sitcom, "Green Acres."
Gabor was raised in an upper middle class family with governesses and an education in Fortner Institute in Budapest. From the time she was four she wanted to be an actress. She started classes at 15 but had to quit as her parents thought that acting was too vulgar a vocation.
At 18, she met Dr. Eric Drimmer, a Swedish-American doctor at a party; she married him and moved with him to Hollywood. Speaking only halting English, 5' 2" and 106 lbs, she was nonetheless signed by Paramount. She played in a poor film, "Forced Landing," in 1941 and after one more film, was dropped.
In 1942 Gabor divorced Drimmer and the following year, married millionaire realtor Charles Isaacs; they divorced in 1949. By 1945 her two sisters had joined her along with her mother, Jolie, who had divorced their father.
She played in a string of minor films, TV and plays, with her own TV interview show for a year and a half. During the '50s she and Zsa Zsa were in high profile, both gorgeous women, witty and sophisticated. All three sisters did a nightclub act during 1953 that was not their best idea; Eva herself reported that it was really bad. Jolie and Magda went into business with a jewelry shop in New York. Zsa Zsa was establishing a series of marriages, books and movies, and Eva began to move more solidly into theater. In early 1958 she played in a revival of Noel Coward's "Present Laughter."
On 8 April 1956 she married surgeon John Williams for less than a year, and on 4 October 1959, married New York stockbroker Richard Brown. They divorced in 1973. She married Frank Gard Jameson Sr., an aerospace executive on 21 September 1973. The couple divorced in 1983. Gabor, herself childless, became a stepmother to Jameson's four children.
Gabor died in Los Angeles on 4 July 1995, aged 76, from respiratory failure and pneumonia, following a fall in a bathtub in Mexico, where she had been on vacation.
Relationships
- associate relationship with Albert, Eddie (born 22 April 1906). Notes: Co-stars in "Green Acres," 1965-1971
- lover relationship with Ford, Glenn (born 1 May 1916)
- sibling relationship with Gabor, Zsa Zsa (born 6 February 1917)
- other kin relationship with Hilton, Francesca (born 10 March 1947). Notes: Aunt/ niece
- assault/ battery perpetrator relationship with Murphy, Jack Roland (born 26 May 1937)
Events
- Work : New Job 1953 (Nightclub act with sisters)
- Relationship : Marriage 8 April 1956 (Third marriage, John Elbert Williams, less than a year)
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- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1958 (Stage debut)
- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released September 1965 (Debut of "Green Acres")
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- Relationship : Divorce dates 1983 (Frank Gard Jameson Sr.)
Source Notes
Dana Haynes quotes her, client, "between 12:00 and 1:00 PM," rectified to 12:24 PM by Haynes. All three Gabor sisters are vague about their ages and some sources give 1926 for Eva, others give 1921.
Sy Scholfield quotes same date in "Those Glamorous Gabors: Bombshells from Budapest" by Darwin Porter (Blood Moon, 2013), pp. 9-10: "[Her mother] partied with friends until midnight of February 10, 1919 . . . At two o'clock as the evening was winding down . . . labor pains set in . . . She was rushed home, where once again, the midwife . . . assisted her during childbirth." No time of birth given in the book, except that it was after 2am and would have been even later "since the doctor who'd been summoned didn't make it on time."
Categories
- Traits : Body : Appearance gorgeous
- Traits : Body : Voice/Speech (Kept her accent)
- Traits : Personality : Humorous, Witty
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Pneumonia
- Family : Childhood : Advantaged (Affluent family, Fortner Institute educated)
- Family : Childhood : Order of birth (Third of three)
- Family : Childhood : Sibling circumstances (Sisters stayed close, worked together at times)
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (Four)
- Lifestyle : Financial : Gain - Financial success in field
- Lifestyle : Financial : Gain - Money Through Marriage (Second husband millionaire)
- Lifestyle : Social Life : Friends (Socialite, focus of gossip)
- Lifestyle : Home : Expatriate (Hungary to U.S.)
- Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress
- Vocation : Entertainment : Live Stage (Legitimate theater)
- Vocation : Entertainment : Night Club/ Vaudeville (Act with sisters)
- Vocation : Entertainment : TV host/ Personality (Hostess of her own TV talk show)
- Vocation : Entertainment : TV series/ Soap star ("Green Acres")
- 1919 births
- Birthday 11 February
- Birthplace Budapest, HUN
- Sun 21 Aquarius
- Moon 8 Cancer
- Asc 0 Cancer
- 1995 deaths
- Traits : Body : Appearance gorgeous
- Traits : Body : Voice/Speech
- Traits : Personality : Humorous, Witty
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Pneumonia
- Family : Childhood : Advantaged
- Family : Childhood : Order of birth
- Family : Childhood : Sibling circumstances
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages
- Lifestyle : Financial : Gain - Financial success in field
- Lifestyle : Financial : Gain - Money Through Marriage
- Lifestyle : Social Life : Friends
- Lifestyle : Home : Expatriate
- Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress
- Vocation : Entertainment : Live Stage
- Vocation : Entertainment : Night Club/ Vaudeville
- Vocation : Entertainment : TV host/ Personality
- Vocation : Entertainment : TV series/ Soap star