Zsa Zsa Gabor's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Bracken's World Zsa Zsa Gabor Hollywood Women (UK) Zsa Zsa Gabor Tattletales Zsa Zsa Gabor The Rounders Ilona Hobson Climax! Zsa Zsa Gabor Everybody's Talking! Zsa Zsa Gabor Fractured Flickers Zsa Zsa Gabor Lux Playhouse Helen Personality Zsa Zsa Gabor The Celebrity Game Zsa Zsa Gabor The Celebrity Game (UK) Panelist (13) The Herb Shriner Show Zsa Zsa Gabor The Life of Riley Gigi The Movie Game Zsa Zsa Gabor The Word (UK) Zsa Zsa Gabor

Main Movie Roles 1996 - A Very Brady Sequel 1993 - Happily Ever After 1993 - The Beverly Hillbillies 1987 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors 1962 - Boys' Night Out 1962 - The Road to Hong Kong 1958 - Touch of Evil 1958 - Queen of Outer Space 1953 - Lili 1952 - Moulin Rouge 1952 - Lovely to Look at 1952 - We're Not Married!

BIOGRAPHY:

Undoubtedly, the woman who became to epitomize what we recognize today as "celebrity," Zsa Zsa Gabor is better known for her many marriages, personal appearances, her 'dahlink' catchphrase, her actions, life gossip, and quotations on men, rather than her film career.

It is unclear as to Zsa Zsa's birth date; sources vary from 1917 to 1919. Born in Budapest, Hungary, as Sari Gabor, she followed her sister Eva Gabor to Hollywood. A radiant, beautiful blonde, Zsa Zsa began appearing on television shows and doing the odd movie.

Her first film was at MGM in Lovely to Look at (1952), co-starring Kathryn Grayson and Red Skelton. She next made a comedy called We're Not Married! (1952) at Twentieth Century Fox, with Ginger Rogers. It was far from a star billing for Zsa Zsa, appearing several names down the cast list as a supporting player.

It was in 1952, however, that saw her break into movies big time with her starring role opposite José Ferrer (I) in Moulin Rouge (1952), although it has been said that she was given a very hard time throughout the filming by director John Huston (I).

In the following years, Zsa Zsa slipped back into supporting roles in films such as Lili (1953) and 3 Ring Circus (1954). Her main period of film work was in the 1950s, with other roles in Death of a Scoundrel (1956) with Yvonne De Carlo and The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958) with Anna Neagle. Again, these were supporting roles. By the 1960s, Zsa Zsa was appearing more as herself in the movies; she now appeared to follow her own persona around, and cameo appearances were the order of the day in films such as Pepe (1960) and Jack of Diamonds (1967). This continued throughout the 1970s.

She was very memorable as herself in The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991), in which she humorously pokes fun at an incident in 1990 when she was convicted of slapping a police officer during a traffic dispute and spent several days in jail (such infamous incidents contributed to her becoming one of the most all-time recognizable of Hollywood celebrities in recent years and sometimes ridiculed as a result. She was also memorable to British television viewers on "The Ruby Wax Show" (1997).

In 2002, she was reported to be in a coma in a Los Angeles hospital after a horrifying car accident. The 85-year-old, Hungarian-born star was injured when the car she was traveling in hit a light pole in West Hollywood, California. The reports about her coma, eventually proved inaccurate.


TRIVIA:

• Strong doubts have been raised about her claim to the title of a German princess through her marriage to Prince 'Frédéric von Anhalt' (qv). Frederic's father, a policeman and commoner, paid elderly aristocrat Princess Marie-Auguste von Anhalt, daughter-in-law of 'Kaiser Wilhelm II' (qv), a considerable amount of money to adopt his son. Old European royalty does not recognize his title. Zsa Zsa's husband's real name is Hans Robert Lichtenberg. Prince or not, he does have the distinction of being married to her for longer than any of her previous spouses.
• Her marriage to 'Frédéric von Anhalt' (qv) awarded her the title Princess Von Anhalt, Duchess of Saxony. The legitimacy of this title is strongly questioned by many royal genealogists.
• Inducted into the B-Movie Hall of Fame, October 26, 2004.
• Campaigned in 1968 and 1972 for 'Richard Nixon' (qv), who she described as "the most intelligent President of our time".
• Once replaced five-time Tony Award winner, 'Julie Harris (I)' (qv), on Broadway.
• Miss Hungary of 1936.
• Once held up an episode of _"The New Hollywood Squares" (1986)_ (qv) for about 45 minutes after breaking a fingernail.
• In 1993 she and her husband were sentenced to pay $2,000,000 to actress 'Elke Sommer' (qv) because of false accusations.