Eva Gabor

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Eva Gabor
Born February 11, 1919(1919-02-11)
Budapest, Hungary
Died July 4, 1995 (aged 76)
Los Angeles, California, USA
Spouse(s) Erik Drimmer (1939-1942)
Charles Isaacs (1943-1949)
John Williams (1956-1956)
Richard Brown (1959-1972)
Frank Jameson (1973-1983)
Persondata
NAME Gabor, Eva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest, Hungary
DATE OF DEATH July 4, 1995
PLACE OF DEATH Los Angeles, California, USA

Eva Gabor (in Hungarian Gábor Éva) (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. She was the sister of Zsa Zsa Gabor and the late Magda Gabor.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Career

Éva was the first in her family to emigrate to America. She moved with her first husband, Swedish physician Eric Drimmer. Her first movie role was a bit part in Forced Landing (1941) at Paramount Pictures. She acted in movies and on the stage throughout the 1950s. In 1965, she commenced her best known role in the TV sitcom Green Acres, a Paul Henning production in which she portrayed Lisa Douglas, the New York wife of Oliver Wendell Douglas played by Eddie Albert who left New York City to live on a farm. This was a hit show for several seasons, ending in 1971, and is still seen in syndication.

In later years, she did notable voice-over work for Disney movies, providing the European-accented voices of Duchess in The Aristocats, Miss Bianca in The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under, and the Queen of Time in the Sanrio film, Nutcracker Fantasy.

She was also a successful businesswoman marketing the "Eva Gabor Wigs" and "The Eva Gabor Look".

[edit] Marriages

Like her sisters, Éva was known for her string of marriages; she had five:

  1. 1939-1942 Eric Drimmer, a Swedish physician
  2. 1943-1950 Charles Isaacs
  3. 1956-1956 John Williams, an American physician
  4. 1959-1972 Richard Brown
  5. 1973-1983 Frank Gard Jameson

For several years, Éva had a close platonic relationship with businessman/entertainer Merv Griffin, attending events together for publicity purposes.[citation needed] Throughout her marriage to Frank Jameson and in the years after she revealed to those closest to her that she remained in love with husband #4, Richard Brown, and that she wished they had worked out their differences.[citation needed] Mr. Brown now resides in London and also believes that he made a mistake in giving up on the marriage.[citation needed]

[edit] Death

Éva Gabor died on July 4, 1995 at the age of 76 from respiratory failure in Los Angeles, California. Although the youngest of the three sisters, she was the first of them to die. On 1 April 1997 her 104-year-old mother, Jolie, died. On June 6, 1997 her sister Magda died at the age of 81, 5 days before her 82nd birthday. Éva is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California. She is buried very close to her Green Acres co-star Eddie Albert who died May 26, 2005 at 99 years old.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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

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