Eva Gabor (February 11, 1919 – July 4, 1995) was a
Hungarian-born actress, best known as
Lisa Douglas, the wife of
Eddie Albert's character
Oliver Wendell Douglas, on
Green Acres. Her elder sisters,
Zsa Zsa Gabor and the late
Magda Gabor, were also actresses and socialites.
Marriages
Like her sisters, Eva Gabor was known for her string of marriages; she had five:
- 1939-1942: Eric Drimmer, a Swedish physician
- 1943-1950: Charles Isaacs
- 1956-1957: John Williams, an American physician
- 1959-1972: Richard Brown
- 1973-1983: Frank Gard Jameson
Death
Eva Gabor died on July 4, 1995, aged 76, from respiratory failure and
pneumonia in
Los Angeles, California following an accident in which she lost her balance and fell into her bathtub in
Mexico, where she had been on vacation.
Although the youngest of the three sisters, she was the first to die.
On April 1, 1997, her 100-year-old mother,
Jolie, died, unaware of Eva's death. On June 6, 1997 her elder sister Magda died from renal failure.
Interment
Eva Gabor is interred in the
Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in
Westwood, California. She is buried near her
Green Acres co-star
Eddie Albert, who died on May 26, 2005, aged 99.
Filmography
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Television work
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- The Eva Gabor Show (1953-1954)
- Mickey and the Contessa (1963) (unsold pilot)
- Green Acres (1965-1971)
- Wake Me When The War Is Over (1969)
- Almost Heaven (1978)
- Tales of the Klondike (1981) (miniseries)
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