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Eva Gabor
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| Born | February 11, 1919 Budapest, Hungary |
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| Died | July 4, 1995 (aged 76) Los Angeles, California, USA |
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| Spouse(s) | Erik Drimmer (1939-1942) Charles Isaacs (1943-1949) John Williams (1956-1956) Richard Brown (1959-1972) Frank Jameson (1973-1983) |
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| NAME | Gabor, Eva |
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| 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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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".
Like her sisters, Éva 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
For several years, Éva lived platonically with businessman/entertainer Merv Griffin, attending events together for publicity purposes.[citation needed] They lived together until Éva's death in 1995.
Éva Gabor died at the age of 76 in Los Angeles, California, from respiratory failure as a complication of food poisoning. She died on 4 July 1995. Although the youngest of the three sisters, she was the first of them to die. On 1 April 1997 her 100 year old mother died. On June 6, 1997 her sister Magda died at the age of 82, 5 days before her 83rd 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.
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- Orchids & Salami, by Eva Gabor, Doubleday, 1954.
- Gaborabilia, by Anthony Turtu and Donald F Reuter, Three Rivers Press, 2001. ISBN 0-609-80759-5
- Eva Gabor at the Internet Movie Database
- Eva Gabor interviewed by "Madame"
- Eva Gabor at TV.com
- Eva Gabor at Find A Grave
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