The Nine Husbands and Scandalous Life of Giligan’s Island Star Zsa Zsa Gabor

Zsa Zsa Gabor was born on February 6th, 1917 in Budapest, Hungary, and was first known as Sari Gabor. She was one of three sisters; one of them was the other famous, Gabor, Eva, but all of them became famous in the end.

Zsa Zsa went to a boarding school in Switzerland, and at a very young age, she competed in the Miss Hungary beauty competition in 1933. Unfortunately, she was still too young at that time and was disqualified for that reason.

All three of the Gabor sisters became famous, becoming TV stars, socialites, and performers, who appeared in films and TV shows. Zsa Zsa also became the author of many books, especially the very popular How to Catch a Man and two other closely related books.

The Gabor sisters were also renowned for many things away from the limelight, especially Zsa Zsa Gabor. Her personal life was one filled with intrigue and drama, especially her love life, including her many marriages and relationships.

This Hungarian-American actress and socialite began her stage career as early as 1934, in the entertainment city of Vienna in Austria. At the tender age of 17, she made her stage debut in Vienna, singing in a light opera.

This all happened after she was discovered by Richard Tauber, who provided her with the first steps to becoming a celebrity. At 19, she was crowned Miss Hungary, which started her meteoric rise to fame that just kept going.

With all the drama brewing in Europe around 1941 and being born of Jewish ancestry, she decided to immigrate to America. So, at the age of 24, Zsa Zsa and her sisters moved to the USA while their mother followed three years later.

Zsa Zsa Gabor made headlines on her way to America by telling the press that she had danced with a certain German leader. So, before even setting foot in Hollywood, she was already working on becoming one of the most well-known socialites in the world.

Zsa Zsa was 19 when she and her sisters got on the plane to come to Hollywood, and that was for one reason, to become famous. As soon as she arrived, she took up acting but getting a part wasn’t easy and took some time.

In 1952, she got her first role in a film, which was a supporting role in the musical, Lovely to Look At. This is how it all started for Zsa Zsa Gabor, and she never looked back after that.

In the same year, she played a supporting role in a film. Zsa Zsa also made her first movie, the one that made her famous. The effect her arrival had on the world after the world conflict was huge, and she valued that with her whole heart.

As the star of the film Moulin Rouge, in 1952, she achieved what she came to do: to become a famous actress and socialite. From here on, nothing could stop Zsa Zsa from becoming even more famous and well-loved by her fans and everyone else.

When big directors like Orson Welles and John Huston took note of Zsa Zsa Gabor, she started to get more and more roles. This all happened in 1952, and after the very first supporting role, the offers just started to roll in.

Movies that followed after her first role that year were Moulin Rouge and We’re Not Married, giving her serious acting credit. In 1953, she starred in the movie Lili, which boosted her career even more, and many big directors noticed her.

These female immigrants from Europe had a simple appeal and radiated beauty and mystery that captivated everyone they met. These qualities made them accepted with open arms in the social lives of New York and Los Angeles at that time in history.

Zsa Zsa quickly became part of the social crowd of celebrities and wholeheartedly played her role as a Hollywood socialite. Soon, everyone knew about these beautiful sisters who brought their historical beauty and charm to America and the entertainment industry.

With her unique style and flair, this young personality was an enigma in Hollywood and American social circles. Her grace and charm won over many, making her a very sought-after actress by many of the great names in the movie industry.

She had a certain European charm and grace that was different from that found in the new world. All three Gabor sisters stood out from the rest with their enigmatic personalities and beauty, but Zsa Zsa stood out the most.

Even before she became noticed, Zsa Zsa Gabor declined to play the leading role in the movie version of Lady Chatterley’s Lover. She was to play the role of Lady Chatterley in this classic romantic novel, the last from the author D.H. Lawrence.

According to Zsa Zsa Gabor, she turned this offer down because of the controversial theme of this novel.

It was clear from the beginning that the goal of this socialite was to be successful in the entertainment industry. She was after all the perks that come with a career in the limelight, but most of all, to become famous.

According to the book of family friend Sam Staggs, they worked hard to become famous and were focused on reaching their goal. Zsa Zsa Gabor and her sisters weren’t just famous because they were famous – they worked hard for it.

She might not have been the sole author, but she co-authored her first novel in 1944 titled, Every Man for Himself. According to Zsa Zsa Gabor, this book was partly based on real-life events that happened in her life.

This book was later bought by an American magazine, proving that she was a very versatile and talented artist. The fact that she could sing, write, and act, made her quite a resourceful person.

Zsa Zsa didn’t just work on her career as an actress, but she also worked on becoming known as a celebrated socialite. Her extravagant lifestyle and whopping nine husbands are proof of the very busy social life she had.

Even though she was one of the first celebrities, many people say she was famous for just being known, but some don’t agree. Let’s take an in-depth look at how this famous actress’s life unfolded by examining both her career and her personal life.

After that first appearance in Lovely to Look At, the doors started to open for her, and important people noticed her. This was her foot in the door to becoming the star in many movies after that, in which all enjoyed her talent.

Many great movies followed after that, some of them in the same year of her first debut, which was only a supporting role. After this, she never looked back, so let’s see what films she appeared in.

This was the first movie she starred in, making many recognize her as an actress. This happened not long after her supporting role in the musical, Lovely to Look At, and kicked off her acting career.

She played the role of Jane Avril, the can-can dancer, in the John Huston-directed movie. Huston was one of many important people in Hollywood who took notice of this climbing star.

This was an American comedy in which Zsa Zsa Gabor played the role of one of the couples that got married. She played the role of the gold digger, Eve, who was married to the kind millionaire she tried to frame.

This movie was also screened in 1952, making it a busy year for Zsa Zsa Gabor, and the start of a long acting career. This might not have been her sole starring role, but it was filled with many other stars from that time.

Yet another movie Zsa Zsa Gabor starred in Lili, was filmed in 1953, a year after her acting debut. She played the role of Rosalie, the assistant of the handsome magician, who Lili wanted to replace.

Even though she didn’t play in the main cast of this movie, Zsa Zsa Gabor still made a huge impression on the audience. After this, her movie career slowed down, but she was very much in demand for TV game shows and talk shows.

For the next few years, she only played minor roles in movies like The Most Wanted Man, where she played Lola la Blonde, in 1953. After that, she also played in a few movies in 1954, and in 1956 she starred in Death of a Scoundrel with her ex-husband, George Sanders.

The year after that, in 1957, she played a role in just one movie, The Girl in the Kremlin, directed by Charles Martin. But this was not the end of Zsa Zsa Gabor – she made sure of that.

In 1958, she again started playing roles in several movies, including titles such as Touch of Evil. That was a new start, other movies such as Queen of Outer Space, The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk, and Country Music Holiday followed.

All these movies were directed by big names in the movie world, giving her a lot of recognition. Among these names were Herbert Wilcox and Orson Welles, to name a few.

From 1959 to 1962, she had a few roles in movies, and in Pepe, she even played herself. At this time in her life, she had quite a number of things going on, like getting married to a list of husbands.

Even these spells in her social life didn’t deter her from focusing on her acting career. A long list of movies followed in the years that came.

From as early as 1953 to 1995, she appeared in more than 55 TV shows and talk shows. She had many recurring roles and a long list of TV series to put behind her name.

In many of these TV shows, she appeared as herself and not in roles cast for her. In 1988, she even appeared in the TV movie, Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special, as Princess Zsa Zsa. A tribute to her life was made in This Is Your Life in 1994.

Even though she strove to become a movie and TV personality, theater was still her first love. From a young age, in 1935 and up to 1993, she performed in several theater shows.

She started with the show, Der Singende Traum, and the last show she appeared in was in 1993. In this show, she played Cinderella, which is rather fitting.

Zsa Zsa Gabor married her first husband, 35-year-old Buran Asaf Belge, a Turkish government official, in 1937, at the age of 20. Rumor has it that she proposed to this man who was 15 years older than she was.

To celebrate their union, the Gabor parents gave her a 10-karat diamond ring as a wedding gift. In 1941, their marriage started to collapse, and they both decided to go their separate ways. Zsa Zsa applied for an official divorce when she arrived to America.

Shortly after arriving on American soil, she met the hotel magnate Conrad Hilton, who had recently become a bachelor. They met at an upscale club where they were flirting with each other, and he offered her $20,000 to accompany him to Florida.

Zsa Zsa refused this offer, but only two months later, they were married, which happened on April 10, 1942. They had a daughter together, but that marriage didn’t last, and they got divorced in 1946.

The marriage to George Saunders, a British actor, lasted from 1949 to 1954, almost a full six years. The reason Gabor claimed she divorced him was that he wanted to turn her into a housewife, which she wasn’t interested in.

In her own words, “we were both in love with him, so when I fell out of love, he didn’t.” Two years after their divorce, they both played in the same movie, Death of a Scoundrel, in which they starred together.

Zsa Zsa Gabor and the investment banker Herbert Hutner married in 1962, which lasted for only four years. They divorced in 1966 because he was too generous and kind, according to Zsa Zsa.

Zsa Zsa was the banker’s second wife, while he was her fourth husband and was nearly 10 years older than her. They had no children together, and according to Zsa Zsa, he nearly annihilated her drive, whatever that meant.

Number five in the long line of Zsa Zsa’s husbands was Joshua S. Cosdan, Jr., and very little was known about him. According to those who knew him, he was an oil businessman, and they were married for just one year.

They got married in March of 1966 and were divorced only one year later, in 1967, and she didn’t say much about him. However, there are photos of them traveling and spending time together.

Jack Ryan, the designer of toys like the Barbie doll, Chatty Cathy, and Hot Wheels, was husband number six for Zsa Zsa Gabor. Unfortunately, her marriage to Jack also only lasted just one year, from 1975 to 1976, before they ended it as well.

After the divorce from Zsa Zsa, Jack never remarried again and remained single until the day he passed away. It looks like even this brief period of marriage to Zsa Zsa Gabor had quite an impact on her sixth ex.

Her marriage with husband number seven, Michael O’Hara, lasted for five years. This may have been the longest of all her marriages. They met when he was helping her get divorced from husband number six, and they dated for seven months.

They got married on the 27th of August, 1976. Sadly, in 1982, they also decided to part ways and got a divorce. This divorce probably didn’t take that long because he was practicing as a divorce lawyer.

Felipe de Alba was (un)lucky husband number eight. However, the marriage was annulled because she wasn’t yet legally divorced from her previous husband. This lasted only one day when it was discovered that her divorce wasn’t yet finalized, but they didn’t stay together anyway.

Only one day – that’s how long this marriage lasted. Some prefer to see it as if it never really happened, and it seems they both wanted out. Felipe also had a career in law as a divorce attorney. He also used to be a character actor earlier in his life.

Frederic Prinz Von Anhalt was the name of the ninth husband, and their marriage lasted from 1986 until her passing. With this last choice, it seemed like she finally found the one man she wanted to share the rest of her life with.

He changed his name from Hans George Robert Lichtenberg after he paid Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt to adopt him so he could become royalty. He was 26 years older than her last husband, and Zsa Zsa started to call herself Princess Zsa Zsa, Duchess of Saxony.

Looking at her life, it can be seen that Zsa Zsa Gabor wanted to be remembered as more than just an actress or socialite. Her bubbly personality made her a favorite among many in show business and otherwise.

The press and countless others scrutinized many of the things that happened in her social life. While many will remember her as the serial wife, others will fondly remember her as a professional actress they admired.

Many of the things Zsa Zsa had to say became famous, although some of them were more notorious. One was that she was a good housekeeper; every time she left a man, she kept the house!

Another quote from her is this: “Being a bit crazy helps you to stay sane in this world.” Also: “Being jealous of a beautiful woman doesn’t make you more beautiful.”

Her prowess as an actress and her social life made her become not just a celebrity, but far more than that. She became known for more than just acting, and her social reputation started to surpass her reputation as an actress.

Adding to all this, she also became an author of a range of books that made her famous for other reasons. All these contributions to the life of a celebrated actress and socialite made her a larger-than-life figure in Hollywood. And, let’s be honest, she was larger-than-life just about everywhere else, too!

This celebrity is one that can say that she worked hard on her claim to fame. That’s also what the author of the book, Finding Zsa Zsa: The Gabors Behind the Legend, said about her.

The Gabors worked very hard to become famous and weren’t just famous because they were famous. More than anything else, this is what Zsa Zsa Gabor, lately known as Princess Zsa Zsa, wanted and achieved.