Eva Gabor (/ËŒeɪvÉ™ ɡəˈbÉ"Ë r,-ˈɡÉ'Ë bÉ"Ë r/ AY-vÉ™ gÉ™-BOR, -â
GAH-bor; February 11, 1919 â€" July 4, 1995) was a Hungarian-American
actress, businesswoman, singer, and socialite. She was widely known
for her role on the 1965â€"71 television sitcom Green Acres as Lisa
Douglas, the wife of Eddie Albert's character, Oliver Wendell Douglas.
She voiced Duchess in the Disney film The Aristocats, and Miss Bianca
in Disney's The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under. Gabor was
successful as an actress in film, on Broadway and on television. She
was also a successful businesswoman, marketing wigs, clothing and
beauty products. Her elder sisters, Zsa Zsa and Magda Gabor, were also
actresses and socialites.Gabor was born in Budapest, Hungary, the
youngest of three daughters of Vilmos Gábor (died 1962), a soldier,
and his wife Jolie (born Janka Tilleman; 1896â€"1997),[citation
needed] a jeweler. Her parents were both from Hungarian Jewish
families. She was the first of the sisters to immigrate to the US,
shortly after her first marriage, to a Swedish osteopath, Dr. Eric
Drimmer, whom she married in 1937 when she was 18 years old. Her first
movie role was in the US in Forced Landing at Paramount Pictures.
During the 1950s she appeared in several feature films, including The
Last Time I Saw Paris, starring Elizabeth Taylor; and Artists and
Models, which featured Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. These roles were
bit parts. In 1953, she was given her own television talk show, The
Eva Gabor Show, which ran for one season (1953â€"54). Through the rest
of the 1950s and early 1960s she appeared on television and in movies.
She appeared in one episode of the mystery series Justice and was on
the game show What's My Line? as the "mystery challenger." Her film
appearances during this era included a remake of My Man Godfrey, Gigi
and It Started with a Kiss.In 1965, Gabor got the role for which she
is best remembered: Lisa Douglas, whose attorney husband Oliver
Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert) decides to leave the "rat race" of city
life. He buys a farm in a rural community, forcing Lisa to leave her
beloved big-city urban life, in the Paul Henning sitcom Green Acres,
which aired on CBS. Green Acres was set in Hooterville, the same
backdrop for Petticoat Junction (1963â€"70), and would occasionally
cross over with its sister sitcom. Despite proving to be a ratings
hit, staying in the top 20 for its first four seasons, Green Acres,
along with another sister show, The Beverly Hillbillies, was cancelled
in 1971 in the CBS network's "rural purge"â€" a policy to get rid of
the network's rural-based television shows.
GAH-bor; February 11, 1919 â€" July 4, 1995) was a Hungarian-American
actress, businesswoman, singer, and socialite. She was widely known
for her role on the 1965â€"71 television sitcom Green Acres as Lisa
Douglas, the wife of Eddie Albert's character, Oliver Wendell Douglas.
She voiced Duchess in the Disney film The Aristocats, and Miss Bianca
in Disney's The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under. Gabor was
successful as an actress in film, on Broadway and on television. She
was also a successful businesswoman, marketing wigs, clothing and
beauty products. Her elder sisters, Zsa Zsa and Magda Gabor, were also
actresses and socialites.Gabor was born in Budapest, Hungary, the
youngest of three daughters of Vilmos Gábor (died 1962), a soldier,
and his wife Jolie (born Janka Tilleman; 1896â€"1997),[citation
needed] a jeweler. Her parents were both from Hungarian Jewish
families. She was the first of the sisters to immigrate to the US,
shortly after her first marriage, to a Swedish osteopath, Dr. Eric
Drimmer, whom she married in 1937 when she was 18 years old. Her first
movie role was in the US in Forced Landing at Paramount Pictures.
During the 1950s she appeared in several feature films, including The
Last Time I Saw Paris, starring Elizabeth Taylor; and Artists and
Models, which featured Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. These roles were
bit parts. In 1953, she was given her own television talk show, The
Eva Gabor Show, which ran for one season (1953â€"54). Through the rest
of the 1950s and early 1960s she appeared on television and in movies.
She appeared in one episode of the mystery series Justice and was on
the game show What's My Line? as the "mystery challenger." Her film
appearances during this era included a remake of My Man Godfrey, Gigi
and It Started with a Kiss.In 1965, Gabor got the role for which she
is best remembered: Lisa Douglas, whose attorney husband Oliver
Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert) decides to leave the "rat race" of city
life. He buys a farm in a rural community, forcing Lisa to leave her
beloved big-city urban life, in the Paul Henning sitcom Green Acres,
which aired on CBS. Green Acres was set in Hooterville, the same
backdrop for Petticoat Junction (1963â€"70), and would occasionally
cross over with its sister sitcom. Despite proving to be a ratings
hit, staying in the top 20 for its first four seasons, Green Acres,
along with another sister show, The Beverly Hillbillies, was cancelled
in 1971 in the CBS network's "rural purge"â€" a policy to get rid of
the network's rural-based television shows.
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