Gila Golan is an Israeli actress and former model.
16 Facts About Gila Golan
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Gila Golan's parents were murdered in the Holocaust and she was adopted by Zoshia Zawatcki, who saw her wandering the streets of Krakow.
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Gila Golan was given the name Zoshia Zavatski by her Polish family and renamed to Mara Goldenberg in Israel.
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Gila Golan used the names Miriam Goldenberg and Gila Goldenberg.
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Gila Golan was not conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces due to her not knowing her age.
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Gila Golan was spotted by an American photographer and appeared in the Israeli women's magazine LaIsha.
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Gila Golan placed second in the Miss World 1960 competition and changed her name to Gila Golan to prevent the religiously conservative family she lived with in Tel Aviv from learning about it.
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Gila Golan was sent to the United States to raise funds after the competition.
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In June 1964, Gila Golan signed a contract with Columbia Pictures.
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Gila Golan starred in Our Man Flint, which was banned in Lebanon due to her being an Israeli citizen.
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Gila Golan appeared in The Valley of Gwangi and Three on a Couch.
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Gila Golan ended her career in 1969, citing her poor pay of $150 a week for Our Man Flint while Columbia earned $1,500 as she was on loan, and said that her former agent was sabotaging her career.
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Gila Golan married Alex Urban in 1964, but became separated in 1965, and divorced in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in 1967.
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Gila Golan married Matthew Bernard Rosenhaus on September 16,1969, in Montreal, Canada, and had three children with him.
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Gila Golan became a citizen of the United States in 1969.
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Gila Golan sold her apartment at The Pierre for $10 million in 2014.