Eva Gabor
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Éva Gábor (February 11, 1919 – July 4, 1995) was a Hungarian born actress.
She was born in Budapest, Hungary, the daughter of Vilmos Gabor and Jolie Tilleman (or Jolie Gabor). Her sisters are Magda Gábor and Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Her first movie was Forest Landing (1941) at Paramount Pictures. She acted in movies throughout the 1950s; in the 1960s, she appeared in her well known TV role on the sitcom Green Acres, in which she portrayed Lisa Douglas, a New York wife living on a farm.
In later years, she provided the voice of Miss Bianca in The Rescuers animated Disney movies.
Eva had five husbands:
- Swedish physician Erik Drimmer (married circa 1939-divorced 1942);
- Charles Isaacs (married 1943 – divorced 1950);
- Dr. John Williams (married 1956 – divorced 1956);
- Richard Brown (married 1959 – divorced 1972)
- Frank Jameson (married 1973 – divorced 1983).
Eva Gabor died in Los Angeles of respiratory failure after suffering from food poisoning at the age of 76. She is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California.
Filmography
- Forced Landing (1941)
- New York Town (1941)
- Pacific Blackout (1941)
- Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) (unconfirmed role)
- A Royal Scandal (1945)
- The Wife of Monte Cristo (1945)
- Song of Surrender (1949)
- Love Island (1952)
- Paris Model (1953)
- Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl (1954)
- The Mad Magician (1954)
- The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
- Artists and Models (1955)
- My Man Godfrey (1957)
- Don't Go Near the Water (1957)
- Gigi (1958)
- The Truth About Women (1958)
- It Started with a Kiss (1959)
- A New Kind of Love (1963)
- Youngblood Hawke (1964)
- The Aristocats (1970) (voice)
- The Rescuers (1977) (voice)
- Nutcracker Fantasy (1979)
- The Princess Academy (1987)
- The Rescuers Down Under (1990) (voice)
- The People vs. Zsa Zsa Gabor (1991) (documentary)