Eva Gabor

Born: February 11, 1919 In addition to television and film her credits also include appearances on radio and the Broadway stage. In 1953 she hosted a fifteen minute television show appropriately called "The Eva Gabor Show." Her main claim to fame was her television career in the 1960's. In 1965 she began playing Lisa Douglas on the CBS rural sitcom "Green Acres." Eddie Albert played Oliver Wendell Douglas, Lisa's husband, who had a deep burning desire to leave "city life" and become a farmer. As the socialite turned desperate housewife she became known for making her "hot cakes" and mangled English. She often would say "Hootersville" as opposed to "Hooterville." "Green Acres" ran from 1965 to 1971. She also appeared as Lisa on "Petticoat Junction" on a recurring basis from 1965 to 1969 and made a single guest appearance as Lisa on "The Beverly Hillbillies" in a 1968 Thanksgiving episode. All three shows were written and produced by Paul Henning and therefore all existed in the same "television universe." Her first film appearance was in 1941's Forced Landing. She would go on to appear in more than a dozen films after that. In later years she would lend her voice to such animated feature films as AristoCats (1970), The Rescuers (1977) and The Rescuers Down Under (1990). The Rescuers Down Under would end up being her final film. Her final television appearance was on the revival of "Burke's Law" in 1994. Her other television credits include (this list is incomplete): "Four Star Revue" "Person to Person" "The Colgate Comedy Hour" "The Johnny Carson Show" "The Red Skelton Show" "Tonight Starring Jack Paar" "I've Got a Secret" "The DuPont Show of the Week" "Password" "What's My Line?" "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" "The Mike Douglas Show" "The Joey Bishop Show" "The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show" "The Liberace Show" "The Merv Griffin Show" "The Art Linkletter Show" "The Dean Martin Show" "Here's Lucy" "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" "Dinah!" "Match Game 73" "Match Game PM" "The Hollywood Squares" "The Edge of Night" "The New Hollywood Squares" "Hi Honey, I'm Home" "Your Show of Shows" "Suspense" "Studio One" "Climax!" "General Electric Theater" "The Dick Powell Show" "The Defenders" "The United States Steel Hour" "Burke's Law" (1960's version) "Ellery Queen" "Fantasy Island" "Hart to Hart" "Hotel" "The Love Boat" "Dream On" Personally I think she was the most successful of the Gabor sisters... She passed away on July 4, 1995... In Memoriam Remembers: Eva Gabor