Zsa Zsa Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor [ ˈʒɒ ʒɒ ˈgaːbor ] (* February 6, 1917 as Sári Gábor in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; † December 18, 2016 in Los Angeles , USA ), also Zsuzsanna Sári Gábor , was an American - Hungarian actress . She starred in films like Moulin Rouge and Under Signs of Evil , but was best known for her glamorous personal life.
Life
Zsa Zsa Gabor was born as the second daughter of the Hungarian Guard officer Vilmos Gábor (1884–1962) and his wife, the actress Janka Tilleman (also known as Jólie Sári, 1896–1997). Her parents were Jews .
Zsa Zsa Gabor and her sisters Magda (1915–1997) and Eva (1919–1995) were Catholics from childhood . Zsa Zsa attended the Catholic girls' school Notre-Dame De Sion in Buda (today the Arany János Gimnázium). In 1933, the then 16-year-old came second in the Miss Hungary beauty pageant . After training at the Vienna Music Academy , Richard Tauber gave her a role in the operetta The Singing Dream . At the age of 20, she married a Muslim man, 38-year-old Burhan Belge , who was press secretary at the Turkish embassy in Budapest at the time. The couple moved to Ankara , where Zsa Zsa met 57-year-old Kemal Ataturk .
Most of her family members narrowly escaped the Holocaust . In 1941, after her marriage to Burhan Belge, Gabor followed her sister Eva to Hollywood to work as an actress like her . From 1952 she worked in around 30 mostly smaller films and in numerous television productions, for which she was honored in 2004 with membership in the B-Movie Hall Of Fame . In the film Moulin Rouge , which portrayed the life of the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , she played the dancer Jane Avril .
She was considered the epitome of the Hollywood diva because of her marriages, affairs, and gossip stories. She also became known through numerous scandals and libel trials, which even brought her to prison for three days. In mostly short marriages with millionaires, Gabor made a fortune that consisted mainly of real estate and jewelry. She was described by a member of the US Congress as the most expensive courtesan since Madame de Pompadour . On November 27, 2002, Gabor was involved in a traffic accident on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. After that she was in a wheelchair. She was awarded $ 2 million in damages for the injuries she suffered that confined her to a wheelchair. She was robbed of a large part of her fortune by the investment fraudster Bernie Madoff .
In August 2010, Gabor was admitted to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in grave health and received the sacraments there . On December 18, 2016, shortly before the age of 100, Zsa Zsa Gabor died in her mansion in Los Angeles after a long illness of complications from a heart attack . The Requiem took place on December 30th in the Roman Catholic "Church of the Good Shepherd" (English Church of the Good Shepherd) in Beverly Hills . Gabor was cremated and buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery .
Marriages
Zsa Zsa Gabor was married eight times:
- 1938–1941 with Burhan Asaf Belge (1899–1967), press chief of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, later became known as a writer and diplomat
- 1942–1947 with Conrad Nicholson Hilton (1887–1979), founder of the Hilton Hotel , with whom she had their only daughter, Constance Francesca Hilton (1947–2015)
- 1949–1954 with the actor George Sanders (1906–1972), who later married Zsa Zsa's sister Magda; During this marriage, Gabor had a relationship with Porfirio Rubirosa (1909-1965), a Dominican diplomat and international playboy
- 1964–1966 with Herbert Hunter (1908–2008), financial advisor and industrialist
- 1966–1967 with Joshua S. Cosden Jr., Texan oil magnate
- 1975–1976 with Jack W. Ryan (1926–1991), designer and co-inventor of the Barbie doll
- 1977–1982 with Michael O'Hara, lawyer
- 1986 until her death with Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt (* 1943).
Another curiosity: Zsa Zsa Gabor held a marriage ceremony in 1982 with the Mexican actor Felipe de Alba (1924–2005). The marriage, which incidentally would only have lasted one day, was invalid for several reasons and therefore did not have to be annulled. Among other things, Gabor was still married to Michael O'Hara (see also: Bigamy ), and the ceremony was held by a ship's captain.
Filmography (selection)
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Publications
- With Gerold Frank: Zsa Zsa Gábor: my story. Cleveland 1960. - Ger. Edition: Zsa Zsa Gabor. The story of my life. German by Werner Kerbs, Non-Stop-Bücherei, Berlin 1961
- How to catch a man, how to keep a man, how to get rid of a man. Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1970
- With Wendy Leigh : One lifetime is not enough. Delacorte Press, New York 1991, ISBN 0-385-29882-X
Awards and honors
- 1958: Golden Globe , special award for the most glamorous actress
- Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (6925 Hollywood Blvd.)
- on June 15, 2011, an asteroid was named after her, (166614) Zsazsa
literature
- David R. Slavitt: George Sanders, Zsa Zsa, and Me. Northwestern Univ. Press, Evanston, Ill. 2009, ISBN 978-0-8101-2624-4
Web links
- Zsa Zsa Gabor in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Zsa Zsa Gabor in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Zsa Zsa Gabor. Entry in Who's Who
- Zsa Zsa Gabor in the Notable Names Database (English)
- Zsa Zsa Gabor in the German dubbing index
- Leslie Bennett: It's a Mad, Mad, Zsa Zsa World , Vanity Fair , October 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Tom Teichholz: Zsa Zsa Gabor: Last of the Hungarian Mohicans. ( Memento of August 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: JewishJournal.com , August 23, 2007
- ↑ a b Sári is the Hungarian nickname Sarah - see entry in Who's Who ( #Weblinks )
- ^ Birth Record for Jolie Gabor
- ^ Reflecting on the life of Zsa Zsa Gabor . In: New York Social Diary . August 17, 2010 ( newyorksocialdiary.com [accessed December 19, 2016]).
- ↑ Ray Gurganus: Family Gabor Genealogy , ourfamtree.org (accessed December 6, 2012)
- ↑ Hollywood has lost a diva: Zsa Zsa Gabor is dead. December 19, 2016, accessed December 28, 2018 .
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Abroad - current news. Retrieved December 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Zsa Zsa Gabor is to be buried in Budapest ( Memento from January 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Obituary: Zsa Zsa Gabor . In: BBC News . December 19, 2016 ( bbc.com [accessed December 28, 2018]).
- ↑ a b c György Lázár : Culture: Zsa Zsa , Hungarian Free Press , December 21, 2016
- ↑ a b Ingo Way: Queen of Headlines , Jüdische Allgemeine , December 19, 2016
- ^ Jan Feddersen: Obituary for Zsa Zsa Gabor: In case of need with a slap in the face , Taz , December 19, 2016
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch?explore=title_type&role=nm0001248&ref_=filmo_ref_job_typ&sort=num_votes,desc&mode=detail&page=1&job_type=actress&title_type=movie
- ↑ Ted Sennet: Ted Sennett's on-screen / off-screen movie guide. Simon & Schuster, New York et al. 1993, ISBN 0-671-76818-2 , p. 359: “Zsa Zsa Gabor plays Jane Avril, the beautiful, giddy chanteuse, whom Toulouse-Lautrec immortalized in his paintings”.
- ↑ Wolfgang Stuflesser: The Perfect Diva , Tagesschau , December 19, 2016
- ^ Suzanne Moore: Zsa Zsa Gabor knew femininity was a performance. She played it perfectly , The Guardian , Dec. 19, 2016
- ↑ Ronald Bergan: Zsa Zsa Gabor obituary , The Guardian , December 19, 2016
- ↑ Zsa Zsa Gabor asks for 'last rites' from priest - CNN.com. Retrieved December 28, 2018 .
- ^ Zsa Zsa Gabor is dead , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 19, 2016
- ↑ Zsa Zsa Gabor is dead , Die Zeit , December 19, 2016
- ↑ https://www.vip.de/vips/zsa-zsa-gabor-t2756.html found at vip.de, accessed on 04.09.2019
- ↑ ABC News: Inside Zsa Zsa Gabor's Funeral in Beverly Hills, 'Farewell My Love'. Accessed August 26, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917-2016) - Find a Grave ... Accessed August 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt on December 19, 2016, Zsa Zsa Gabor died at the age of 99 (accessed December 20, 2016)
- ↑ Gabor and her ghostwriter were the cover story of Live magazine , June 29, 1959, cover and pp. 129-139; Digitized
- ^ Benjamin Ivry: Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hollywood Starlet Who Pointedly Forgot Her Jewish Roots , The Forward , December 18, 2016
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gabor, Zsa Zsa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gábor, Zsa Zsa; Gábor, Sari (possible maiden name); Gábor Sari, Zsuzsanna (possible maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-Hungarian actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 2016 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California |