Eva Gabor was born on February 11, 1919 in Budapest, Hungary, to
Jolie Gabor
(nee Janka Tilleman) and Vilmos Gabor (born Farkas Miklos Grun), a soldier. Her older siblings were
Magda Gabor
, an actress, and
Zsa Zsa Gabor
, an actress and socialite. Her parents were both from Jewish families. She went to Hollywood, California, to act in the 1930s. Her mother escaped from Nazi-occupied Budapest in the 1940s, also settling in the U.S.
Eva appeared both in films and on Broadway in the 1950s, as well as in several "A"-movies, including
The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
,
starring
Elizabeth Taylor
, and
Artists and Models (1955)
,
which featured
Dean Martin
and
Jerry Lewis
.
In 1953, she was given her own television talk show,
The Eva Gabor Show (1953)
.
Throughout the rest of the 1950s and early 1960s, she appeared on
television and in movies. She appeared on one episode of the mystery
series
Justice (1954)
, and was on the
game show
What's My Line? (1950)
as the
"mystery challenger". Her film appearances during this period include a
remake of
My Man Godfrey (1957)
,
Gigi (1958)
and
It Started with a Kiss (1959)
.
However, she is best remembered as Lisa Douglas, the socialite turned
farm wife on
Green Acres (1965)
with co-star
Eddie Albert
playing
her attorney husband Oliver Wendell Douglas. Eva Gabor died at age 76
from respiratory failure and pneumonia on July 4, 1995 in Los Angeles,
California.