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Zsa Zsa Gabor
Age: 92
Height: 5' 4"
Birth Place: Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary)
Born: Feb. 6th, 1917
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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 2˝: 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:
- [27 November 2002] In an automobile accident in Los Angeles, which left her in a coma for a short time, and, subsequently paralyzed. She was a passenger riding in a vehicle that struck a light pole on Sunset Boulevard.
- Measurements: 36C-22-36 (filming _Moulin Rouge (1952)_ (qv)), 38-22-38 (self-described 1960s), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).
- Was considered for the role of Miss Caswell in _All About Eve (1950)_ (qv), but 'Marilyn Monroe' (qv) was cast in the part instead.
- Miss Hungary of 1936.
- Daughter of 'Jolie Gabor' (qv). Sister of 'Magda Gabor' (qv) and 'Eva Gabor' (qv). Mother of actress 'Francesca Hilton' (qv) and ex-step-great-grandmother of 'Paris Hilton' (qv) and 'Nicky Hilton (I)' (qv).
- Inducted into the B-Movie Hall of Fame, October 26, 2004.
- [7 July 2005] Suffered a stroke at her Bel-Air home and underwent emergency surgery to clear a blocked artery.
- Appeared as Minerva, the glamorous owner of a mineral spa, in the last episode (#120) of _"Batman" (1966)_ (qv).
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