Thursday, February 6, 2014

Born Today- Zsa Zsa Gabor- wikipedia

Zsa Zsa brought something new to the American scene: the celebrity who was famous for being famous.

She also had a quick and whacky sense of humor that strayed toward the very racy a good deal of the time

Someone like Johnny Carson could not resist her as a guest

In her later years, people complained she was becoming a caricature of herself, but she soldiered on

She was famous, of course also for starting the Hollywood rage of greeting EVERYBODY with a hug if not more on TV

In old age she gained especially notoriety for being arrested for ripping up a traffic ticket from a Beverly Hills cops and throwing it in his face, along with a lot of invective

At about this time, there appeared the famous Gary Larson "Far Side " cartoon of the Start Trek Enterprise crew recoiling from the huge image they were viewing in their space window

"Deep in Space, crew members of the Enterprise are confronted with the the enormous head of Zsa Zsa Gabor"....

Zsa Zsa Gabor

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Zsa Zsa Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor - 1959.jpg
Publicity photo, 1959
Born Gábor Sári
February 6, 1917 (age 96)
Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Nationality Hungarian American
Occupation Actress, socialite
Years active 1932–97
Spouse(s) Burhan Asaf 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
(1976–1983)
Felipe de Alba
(1983; annulled)
Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt
(1986–present)
Children Francesca Hilton
Parents Jolie Gabor
Relatives Magda Gabor (sister)
Eva Gabor (sister)
The native form of this personal name is Gábor Zsazsa. This article uses the Western name order.
Zsa Zsa Gabor (/ˈʒɑːʒɑː ɡəˈbɔər/[1][unreliable source]; born February 6, 1917) is a Hungarian-born American socialite and actress who acted in supporting roles in movies, on Broadway, and occasionally on television.

She began her stage career in Vienna at age 15, and was crowned Miss Hungary in 1936.[2] She emigrated to the United States in 1941 and became a sought-after actress with "European flair and style", with a personality that "exuded charm and grace".[3] Her first movie role was as supporting actress in Lovely to Look At. She later acted in We're Not Married! and played one of her few leading roles in Moulin Rouge (1952), directed by John Huston, who described her as a "creditable" actress.[4] Besides her film and television appearances, she is best known for having nine husbands, including hotel magnate Conrad Hilton and actor George Sanders. She once stated, "Men have always liked me and I have always liked men. But I like a mannish man, a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman – not just a man with muscles."[5]

Early life and career

Born in Budapest (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), her birth name was Gábor Sári (pronounced [ɡaːbor ʃaːri]). She is the middle of three daughters born to Vilmos Gábor (1884–1962), a soldier, and Jolie Gábor (née Tilleman; died 1997).[6] Gabor was named after Sári Fedák, a popular Hungarian actress.[7] Her elder sister Magda was a socialite and her younger sister Eva was an actress and businesswoman.

Gabor's mother, Jolie, was an aunt of Annette Lantos, wife of Hungarian-born U.S. congressman and Holocaust survivor, Tom Lantos.[8][9] Jolie was of Jewish descent[9] and barely escaped Hungary after the Nazis occupied Budapest in 1944, crediting Magda's influential connections with rescuing her: "For Magda's Portuguese Ambassador I thank God. It was this man who saved my life."[10] Gabor's maternal grandmother and uncle Sebastian (Annette Lantos's father) chose to remain in Budapest feeling they "had a good place to hide". However, both died during an Allied bombing raid. The fate of Zsa Zsa's three maternal aunts, Jolie's three sisters, remains unclear.[10]

Dancing with director Nicholas Ray (1953)
 
Following studies at Madame Subilia's, a Swiss boarding school, Zsa Zsa was discovered by tenor Richard Tauber on a trip to Vienna in 1936 and was invited to sing the soubrette role in his new operetta, Der singende Traum (The Singing Dream), at the Theater an der Wien, making her first stage appearance. Author Gerold Frank, who helped Gabor write her autobiography in 1960, describes his impressions of her while the book was being written:
Zsa Zsa is unique. She's a woman from the court of Louis XV who has somehow managed to live in the 20th century, undamaged by the PTA ... She says she wants to be all the Pompadours and Du Barrys of history rolled into one, but she also says, "I always goof. I pay all my own bills ... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me."[11]
In his autobiography, television host Merv Griffin described the Gabors "in their heyday" as "glamour personified": "All these years later, it's hard to describe the phenomenon of the three glamorous Gabor girls and their ubiquitous mother. They burst onto the society pages and into the gossip columns so suddenly, and with such force, it was as if they'd been dropped out of the sky."[12]

Personal life

Gabor has been married nine times. She was divorced seven times, and one marriage was annulled. Her husbands, in chronological order, are:
At a social affair, c. 1954 accompanied by international playboy and diplomat Porfirio Rubirosa (behind her, to the left)
Gabor's divorces inspired her to make numerous quotable puns and innuendos about her marital (and extramarital) history. She commented: "I am a marvelous housekeeper: Every time I leave a man I keep his house."[21][22] When asked, "How many husbands have you had?", she was quoted as responding, "You mean other than my own?"[21]

While Gabor was still married to Conrad Hilton, she once admitted to having sexual relations with her stepson Nicky, future husband of Elizabeth Taylor.[9]

In 1974, she purchased a home in Bel Air, which once belonged to Elvis Presley. In June 2011, it was announced that Gabor placed the house for sale.[23][24] It was originally built by Howard Hughes[25] and featured a unique-looking French style roof.

Gabor's only child, a daughter named Constance Francesca Hilton, was born on March 10, 1947.[14] According to Gabor's 1991 autobiography One Lifetime Is Not Enough, her pregnancy resulted from rape by then-husband Conrad Hilton. She was the only Gabor sister to have a child.[9] In 2005, a lawsuit was filed accusing her daughter of larceny and fraud, alleging that she had forged her signature to get a US$2 million loan on her mother's Bel Air house. However, the Santa Monica Superior Court threw the case due to Gabor's failure to appear in court or to sign an affidavit that she indeed was a co-plaintiff on the original lawsuit filed by her husband, Frédéric von Anhalt.

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Zsa Zsa helping out at the Denver Muscular Dystrophy TV Marathon, c. 1955
Gabor arriving at a movie premiere in 1962

Legal difficulties

On June 14, 1989, in Beverly Hills, California, Gabor was accused of slapping the face of Beverly Hills police officer Paul Kramer when he stopped her for a traffic violation at 8551 Olympic Boulevard.[26] Gabor also had a long-running feud with German-born actress Elke Sommer that began in 1984 when both appeared on Circus of the Stars and escalated into a multi-million dollar libel suit by 1993.[27]

Health

In 2002, Gabor was a passenger in an automobile crash in Los Angeles, from which she would remain partially paralyzed and reliant on a wheelchair for mobility. She survived strokes in 2005 and 2007 and underwent surgeries.[28] In 2010, she fractured and underwent a successful hip replacement.[29][30]
In 2011, her right leg was amputated above the knee to save her life from an infection.[31] She was hospitalized again in 2011 for numerous emergencies.[32][33][34]

2009 financial problems

On January 25, 2009, the Associated Press reported that her attorney stated that forensic accountants determined that Gabor may have lost as much as $10 million invested in Bernard Madoff's company, possibly through a third-party money manager.[35] Marcus Prinz von Anhalt, a German nightclub owner and adopted son of Gabor's husband, reportedly provided significant financial assistance to the couple.[36] Official New York Bankruptcy Court records reportedly do not list Gabor as a victim.[37]

Filmography

Television

Plays

Miss Gabor appeared in Forty Carats on Broadway, as well as in the national tour of Blithe Spirit (as Elvira).

Bibliography

  • Zsa Zsa Gabor, My Story By Zsa Zsa Gabor with 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 Gabor, Doubleday, 1970.
  • One Lifetime Is Not Enough, by Zsa Zsa Gabor, assisted by and edited 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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