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Staggs, Sam, author.
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Gabor, Zsa Zsa, 1917-2016
Gabor, Eva, 1921-1995.
Gabor, Jolie, 1896-1997.
Gabor, Magda, 1915-1997.
Entertainers -- United States -- Biography.
Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.
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Finding Zsa Zsa : th...
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Finding Zsa Zsa : the Gabors behind the legend / Sam Staggs.
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Staggs, Sam, author.
New York, NY : Kensington Books, 2019.
Subjects
Gabor, Zsa Zsa, 1917-2016
Gabor, Eva, 1921-1995.
Gabor, Jolie, 1896-1997.
Gabor, Magda, 1915-1997.
Entertainers -- United States -- Biography.
Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781496719591 (hardcover) :
149671959X (hardcover)
Description:
xii, 420 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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First Kensington hardcover edition.
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In 1945, after barely escaping Hitler's invasion of Hungary followed by "liberation" of the country by the Red Army, three members of the Gabor family--Jolie, her ex-husband Vilmos, and their daughter Magda--arrived in New York City. In Hollywood, their other daughters, Zsa Zsa and Eva, had worked feverishly throughout the war years to secure their rescue from the Nazis' plan to exterminate the Jews. Stepping off the boat, Jolie, the iron-willed matriarch, already had a golden future mapped out for her sharp-witted, cosmopolitan beauties. Over the next six decades, with twenty-three husbands between them (suave All About Eve star George Sanders would wed both Zsa Zsa and Magda), scores of lovers, and roller-coaster rides in film, television, theater, and business, the elegant yet gloriously bawdy, addictively watchable Gabors carved a niche in the entertainment industry that made them world-famous pop-culture icons. But beneath the artifice of Dior and diamonds was another side to the story they never revealed: the whole truth. This first verifiable history of the Gabors casts a startling new light on these extraordinary women. Finding Zsa Zsa reveals the tumultuous and often unforgiven battles between mother and daughter, sister and sister, wife and husband; Eva's "bearded" romance with Merv Griffin that allowed them both to seek same-sex lovers; Zsa Zsa's involuntary confinement in a mental hospital; her life-long struggle with bipolar disorder; and her last--unconsummated--marriage to the manipulating faux prince Frederic von Anhalt. Here too is the untold story of Zsa Zsa's daughter, Francesca Hilton, a gifted photographer who eschewed the Gabor lifestyle and paid a sad price for her independence. The story of family patriarch Vilmos Gabor, who returned to Hungary only to be trapped behind the Iron Curtain, reads like a Cold War spy thriller. Culled from new interviews with family, colleagues, and confidantes, and the unpublished memoirs of the author's friend Francesca Hilton, Finding Zsa Zsa finally introduces fans to the Gabor family they never knew, including many never-before-seen photos. It's a riveting, outrageously funny, bittersweet, and affectionately honest read of four women who were vulnerable, tough, charitable, endlessly fascinating, and always glamorous to a fault.--
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