Date of Birth 6 February 1917, Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Date of Death 18 December 2016, Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack)
Birth Name Sári Gábor
Nickname Miss Hungary
Height 5' 4" (1.63 m)
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Undoubtedly the woman who had come to epitomize what we recognize today as "celebrity", Zsa Zsa Gabor, is better known for her many marriages, personal appearances, her "dahlink" catchphrase, her actions, life gossip, and quotations on men, rather than her film career.
Zsa Zsa Gabor was born Sári Gabor in Budapest, Hungary, to Jolie Gabor (née Janka Tilleman) and Vilmos Gabor (born Farkas Miklós Grün), a soldier. She was named after Hungarian actress Sári Fedák. Her siblings were Eva Gabor, an actress, and Magda Gabor, a socialite. Her parents were both from Jewish families. Zsa Zsa studied at a Swiss boarding school in the 1930s, and eventually followed her sister Eva to Hollywood, California. Her mother escaped from Nazi-occupied Budapest in the 1940s, also settling in the U.S.
A radiant, beautiful blonde, Zsa Zsa began appearing on television series and doing odd movies. Her first film was at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Lovely to Look At (1952), co-starring Kathryn Grayson and Red Skelton. She next made a comedy called We're Not Married! (1952) at 20th Century Fox, with Ginger Rogers. It was far from a star billing for Zsa Zsa, appearing several names down the cast list as a supporting actress. However, it was in 1952 that saw her break into movies big time occurred, with her starring role opposite José Ferrer in Moulin Rouge (1952), although it has been said that she was given a very hard time throughout the filming by director John Huston.
In the following years, Zsa Zsa slipped back into supporting roles in films such as Lili (1953) and 3 Ring Circus (1954). Her main period of film work was in the 1950s, with other roles in Death of a Scoundrel (1956), with Yvonne De Carlo, and The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958) with Anna Neagle. Again, these were supporting roles. By the 1960s, Zsa Zsa was appearing more as herself in the movies. She now appeared to follow her own persona around, and cameo appearances were the order of the day in films such as Pepe (1960) and Jack of Diamonds (1967). This has continued throughout the 1970s decade.
She was memorable as herself in The Naked Gun 2˝: The Smell of Fear (1991), in which she humorously poked fun at an incident. Wednesday, June 14th, 1990, her fame immediately increased, as a criminal, when she was convicted of slapping a police officer (Paul Kramer) during a traffic dispute, when she did not know her license tag was expired & spent three days in jail and had to do 120 hours of community services after her three days in jail expired. Such infamous incidents contributed to her becoming one of the most all-time recognizable of Hollywood celebrities, and sometimes ridiculed as a result. She was also memorable to British television viewers on The Ruby Wax Show (1997).
In 2002, Gabor was reported to be in a coma in a Los Angeles hospital after a horrifying car accident. The 85-year-old star was injured when the car she was traveling in hit a utility pole in West Hollywood, California. The reports about her coma, eventually proved to be inaccurate.
Zsa Zsa's life, spanning two continents, nine husbands, and just as many decades, came to an end on December 18, 2016, when she died of a heart attack in Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California. She was 99.
Spouses
Frédéric von Anhalt (14 August 1986 - 18 December 2016) (her death)
Felipe de Alba (13 April 1983 - 14 April 1983) (annulled)
Michael O'Hara (27 August 1976 - 30 November 1982) (divorced)
Jack Ryan (21 January 1975 - 24 August 1976) (divorced)
Joshua S. Cosden Jr (9 March 1966 - 18 October 1967) (divorced)
Herbert Hutner (5 November 1962 - 3 March 1966) (divorced)
George Sanders (2 April 1949 - 2 April 1954) (divorced)
Conrad Hilton (10 April 1942 - 28 October 1947) (divorced) (1 child)
Burhan Belge (1937 - 1941) (divorced)
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Francesca Hilton was born in 1947 in New York City.
Her father, Conrad Nicholas Hilton, was the founder of the Hilton Hotel chain. Her mother, Zsa Zsa Gabor was a Hungarian-born actress and socialite. She was the only child of Zsa Zsa Gabor and therefore the only descendant of the Gabor sisters as well as the only daughter of Conrad Hilton. Her three half-brothers are Conrad Nicholson Hilton, Jr. (1926-1969); William Barron Hilton (born 1927) and Eric Michael Hilton (1933-2016). She attended movie premieres with her mother and competed in equestrian competitions as a child. In 1947, while Hilton was an infant, a burglar entered their home, and tied up Zsa Zsa Gabor and their housekeeper, and threatened to kill Francesca. The burglar stole jewelry worth over $750,000.
She worked in reservations at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California during summers as a teenager. When her father died in 1979, he left most of his wealth to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. She contested the will, which left her only $100,000, but lost the suit.
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Death and burial
She died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on January 5, 2015 after suffering a large stroke. She was 67 years old.Her stepfather's fight to take possession of her body was rejected by the Los Angeles coroner, and so her body remained in a morgue until her half-brother Barron Hilton was given her body. Her family and Francesca's close friends arranged her funeral. She was survived by her mother Zsa Zsa Gabor, who suffered from dementia and so was unaware of her daughter's death.
Her funeral was held at St. Ambrose Catholic Church, West Hollywood. She was cremated. Her ashes were interred at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery close to her aunt Eva Gabor.
