Eva Gabor - Biography

Eva Gabor was born on February 11, 1919 in Budapest, Hungary, the youngest of the fabled Gabor sisters. She arrived in the United States in the 1930s and appeared both in films and on Broadway in the 1950s. During the 1950s, she appeared in several "A"-movies including La dernière fois que j'ai vu Paris (1954), starring Elizabeth Taylor, and Artistes et modèles (1955), which featured Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

In 1953, she was gives 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 Mon homme Godfrey (1957), Gigi (1958) and Tout commença par un baiser (1959).

However, she is best remembered as Lisa Douglas, the socialite turned farm wife on Les arpents verts (1965) with co-star Eddie Albert playing her attorney husband Oliver Wendell Douglas. Eva Gabor died at age 76 from respiratory failure and pneumonia and July 4, 1995 in Los Angeles, California.