:Gabor sisters

The Gabor sisters were born into a family of Hungarian-Jewish background, in Budapest, Hungary to parents Vilmos and Jolie Gabor. The family moved to New York in the wake of World War II. Magda had played a small role in a Hungarian film before the war, so Jolie and her three daughters moved to Hollywood to break into the film business. Eva was the first of the sisters to immigrate to the US, shortly after her first marriage, to a Swedish osteopath, Dr. Eric Drimmer, whom she married in 1937 when she was 18 years old.{{cite web|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/us/texas/san-antonio/san-antonio-light/1948/02-29/page-62?tag=sari+hilton&rtserp=tags/?pep=sari-hilton|title=Those Gabor Girls|publisher=San Antonio Light|date=February 29, 1948|access-date=May 28, 2016|author=Johnson, Irving|page=62}}

In 1953, Eva was given her own television talk show, The Eva Gabor Show, which ran for one season (1953–54). Both of her sisters appeared on the show in guest spots. From September 1965 through April 1971, Eva starred in the CBS sitcom Green Acres, which proved to be a ratings success.{{Cite web|url=https://noteabley.com/culture/gabor-sisters-yh/|title = 19 Marriages and an Overbearing Mother: The Glamorous Life of the Gabor Sisters|date = February 23, 2020}}

The sisters were well-known socialites, with Eva and Zsa Zsa becoming notable for their acting and personality work. Both sisters had recurring roles on hit series such as Climax!, The Love Boat, and The Matinee Theater, at separate times, and appeared as themselves regularly on Hollywood Squares, The Dean Martin Show, and The Merv Griffin Show.[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001248/ Zsa Zsa Gabor on IMDb][https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001247/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Eva Gabor on IMDb] In his autobiography, television host Merv Griffin, who was known to spend time with Eva socially, wrote of the Gabor sisters' initial presence in New York and Los Angeles:

All these years later, it's hard to describe the phenomenon of the three glamorous Gabor girls and their ubiquitous mother. They burst onto the society pages and into the gossip columns so suddenly, and with such force, it was as if they'd been dropped out of the sky.Griffin, Merv. Merv: Making the Good Life Last, Simon & Schuster (2003), pg. 179; {{ISBN|0743456963}}

The youngest sister, Eva predeceased her elder sisters and her mother. Eva died in Los Angeles on July 4, 1995, from respiratory failure and pneumonia, following a fall in a bathtub in Mexico, where she had been on vacation.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/05/obituaries/eva-gabor-74-the-actress-youngest-of-celebrated-sisters.html|title=Eva Gabor, 74, the Actress; Youngest of Celebrated Sisters|date=July 5, 1995|agency=Associated Press|work=The New York Times}} Her funeral was held on July 11, 1995, at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Beverly Hills.{{cite web|author=Gary Wayne |url=http://www.seeing-stars.com/Churches/GoodShepherd.shtml |title=Church of the Good Shepherd |website=Seeing-stars.com |date=May 20, 1998 |access-date=July 16, 2016}}

Their mother, Jolie, was apparently never told of Eva's death and died less than two years later, in Palm Springs, California, of natural causes on April 1, 1997, at age 100. The cause of death was declared as kidney failure.{{cite book|last1=Brooks|first1=Patricia|title=Laid to Rest in California: a guide to the cemeteries and grave sites of the rich and famous|chapter=Chapter 8: East L.A. and the Desert|page=238|year=2006|publisher=Globe Pequot Press|location=Guilford, CT|isbn=978-0762741014|last2=Brooks|first2=Jonathan|oclc= 70284362}}[https://books.google.com/books?id=dtUqQKw2H9EC&dq=magda+gabor+desert+memorial&pg=PA141 Explorer's Guide] Two months after Jolie's death, Magda died on June 6, 1997, five days before her 82nd birthday.{{cite web|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2001/07/zsa-zsa-200107|title=Glamour and Goulash|publisher=Vanity Fair|date=July 2001}}

Zsa Zsa died at the age of 99 of cardiac arrest while in a coma at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on December 18, 2016, 50 days shy of becoming a centenarian. The causes of death were given as "Cardiopulmonary arrest, Coronary Artery Disease, and Cerebral Vascular Disease".{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/18/movies/zsa-zsa-gabor-often-married-actress-known-for-glamour-dies.html|title=Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress Famous for Her Glamour (and Her Marriages), Dies at 99|last=McFadden|first=Robert D.|date=December 18, 2016|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=December 14, 2017|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} She had been on life support for the previous five years.{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/2016/film/news/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-dies-1201945003/|title=Hollywood Legend Zsa Zsa Gabor Dies at 99|author=Tim Gray|magazine=Variety|date=December 18, 2016|access-date=December 18, 2016}}

Zsa Zsa was the only Gabor sister to have a child. Zsa Zsa's daughter with husband Conrad Hilton, Francesca Hilton, was born on March 10, 1947. She died on January 5, 2015, at the age of 67, from an apparent stroke or heart attack. She had no children.{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2015/01/06/constance-francesa-hilton-zsa-zsa-gabor-daughter-dies/21327283|title=Francesa Hilton, Zsa Zsa Gabor's daughter, dies|newspaper=USA Today|last=Oldeburg |first=Ann|date=January 6, 2015|access-date=February 24, 2015}} Zsa Zsa was reportedly never told of her daughter's death.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/04/magazine/the-lives-they-lived-jolie-gabor-mother-dahling.html|title=The Lives They Lived: Jolie Gabor; Mother Dahling|first=Alex|last=Witchel|date=June 6, 1998|newspaper=The New York Times}}

• {{cite book |title=Such Devoted Sisters: Those Fabulous Gabors |first=Peter H |last=Brown |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=1985 |location=New York, N.Y|isbn=0-312-77498-2}}
• {{cite book |last1=Turtu |first1=Anthony |last2=Reuter |first2=Donald F. |date=2001 |title=Gaborabilia: An Illustrated Celebration of the Fabulous, Legendary Gabor Sisters |isbn=0-609-80759-5 |location=New York, N.Y|publisher=Three Rivers Press }}

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