1. Eva Gabor was a Hungarian-American actress and socialite.
16 Facts About Eva Gabor
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Eva Gabor was an actress in film, on Broadway, and on television.
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Eva Gabor was a businesswoman, marketing wigs, clothing, and beauty products.
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Eva Gabor 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.
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In 1953, she was given her own television talk show, The Eva Gabor Show, which ran for one season.
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In 1965, Eva Gabor got the role of Lisa Douglas, whose attorney husband Oliver Wendell Douglas decides to leave the "rat race" of city life.
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Eva Gabor buys a farm in a rural community, forcing Lisa to leave her beloved big-city urban life.
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In 1972, Eva Gabor launched her eponymous fashion collection with Luis Estevez, a Cuban-born American fashion designer.
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Eva Gabor later did voice-over work for Disney movies, providing the European-accented voices of Duchess in The Aristocats, and Miss Bianca in The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under, as well as the Queen of Time in the Sanrio film Nutcracker Fantasy.
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Eva Gabor was a panelist on the Gene Rayburn-hosted Match Game.
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Eva Gabor toured post-communist Hungary after a 40-year absence on an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.
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Eva Gabor had a long term on-and off affair with actor Glenn Ford which began during the filming of Don't Go Near the Water in 1957.
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Eva Gabor died in Los Angeles on Independence Day 1995, from respiratory failure and pneumonia, following a fall in a bathtub in Mexico, where she had been on vacation.
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Eva Gabor's funeral was held on July 11,1995, at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Beverly Hills.
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The youngest sister, Eva Gabor predeceased her elder sisters and her mother.
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Eldest sister Magda and mother Jolie Eva Gabor both died two years later, in 1997.