Saturday, July 24, 2010

Zsa Zsa Gabor – Hungarian Hottie Of Hollywood

Zsa Zsa Gabor is seriously ill.

She will always be remembered as Hollywood’s Hungarian hottie.

Read all about her here. Thanks, Wikipedia.

Zsa Zsa Gabor was born Sari Gabor in Budapest, Hungary on February 6, 1917.

She was the second of three sisters.

Her late elder sister Magda and late younger sister Eva also became famous actresses in Hollywood, and Eva was best known for voicing Bianca, the flirty, sexy and brave Hungarian mouse in the Disney cartoon movies The Rescuers (1977) and The Rescuers Down Under (1990).

In 1936, she competed in the Miss Hungary beauty contest but was disqualified for being underaged.

She then visited Vienna in Austria and was discovered by tenor Richard Tauber who roped her in for his operetta The Singing Dream.

Gabor married nine times and eight of her marriages ended in divorce.

Zsa Zsa was the only Gabor sister to bear a child, Constance (Francesca) Hilton who was born on March 10, 1947 after an affair with Conrad Hilton (great-grandfather of Paris Hilton).

She was involved in an automobile accident in 2002 and was hospitalised for two months.

In 2005, she suffered a stroke and took two years to recover.

Gabor’s well-known films include Moulin Rouge (1952), Lili (1953), The Story Of Three Loves (1953), Pepe (1960), Every Girl Should Have One (1978), A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), The Naked Gun 2 ½: The Smell Of Fear (1991), The Beverly Hillbillies (1993) and A Very Brady Sequel (1996).

Her television series include Gilligan’s Island (1965), F Troop (1966), Bonanza (1967), My Three Sons (1968), Love Boat (1980), The Facts Of Life (1981), Matt Houston (1983), It’s Garry Shandling’s Show (1989) and The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air (1991).

She was also active in musical theatre.