Magda Gabor

The native form of this personal name is Gábor Magdolna. This article uses the Western name order.
Magda Gabor
Born Gábor Magdolna
(1915-06-11)June 11, 1915
Budapest, Austria-Hungary (present-day Budapest, Hungary)
Died June 6, 1997(1997-06-06) (aged 81)
Palm Springs, California, U.S.
Cause of death Renal failure
Resting place Desert Memorial Park
Occupation Actress, socialite
Years active 1937–1991
Spouse(s)
  • Jan Bychowski
    (m. 1937–44; his death)
  • William Rankin
    (m. 1946; div. 1947)
  • Sidney Robert Warren
    (m. 1947; div. 1950)
  • Tony Gallucci
    (m. 1957–67; his death)
  • George Sanders
    (m. 1970; ann. 1971)
  • Tibor Heltai
    (m. 1972; div. 1973)
Parent(s) Jolie and Vilmos Gábor
Relatives Zsa Zsa Gabor (sister)
Eva Gabor (sister)
Constance Francesca Hilton (niece)

Magdolna "Magda" Gabor (June 11, 1915 – June 6, 1997)[1] was a Hungarian-born actress and American socialite, and the elder sister of Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor.

Background

The eldest daughter of a jeweler, Jolie (1896–1997),[2] and a soldier, Vilmos Gábor (1881-1962), she was born in 1915 in Budapest.[1] Her parents were both from Jewish families.[3][4][5] She is listed in Hungary: Jewish Names from the Central Zionist Archives, under her first married name, as Magda Bychowsky.[6] She stood 5'6" tall with red hair and gray eyes.[7]

During World War II, Gabor was reported to have been the fiancée of the Portuguese ambassador to Hungary, Carlos Sampaio Garrido;[8] another source claims she was his mistress and another claims she was his aide.[9][10][11] After she fled to Portugal in 1944, following the Nazi occupation of Hungary, and, with Sampaio's assistance, she was reportedly the mistress of a Spanish nobleman, José Luis de Vilallonga.[12] Gabor arrived in the United States in February 1946, from Natal, Brazil. Within a year of her arrival she married an American citizen, William Rankin, and remained in the country.[6]

Marriages

Gabor married six times. She was widowed twice, divorced three times, and one marriage was annulled. All the unions were childless. Her husbands, in chronological order, were:

Death

More than three decades after suffering an incapacitating stroke, Magda Gabor died on June 6, 1997, five days before her 82nd birthday, from renal failure, two months after the death of her mother,[20] and was interred in Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California.[21][22]

Filmography

See also

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 The birth year of 1915 is cited in Hungary: Jewish Names from the Central Zionist Archives, an online database (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2008), accessed on ancestry.com on December 30, 2011. Magda Gabor shaved several years off her age throughout her life, giving 1918, 1919, 1920 and 1921 as her year of birth, thus making herself, the eldest sister, younger than her siblings.
  2. "The Hungarian-Jewish Family Tree of Zsa Zsa Gabor - Nick Gombash's Genealogy Blog".
  3. "Reflecting on the life of Zsa Zsa Gabor". August 17, 2010.
  4. "Jews in the News: Bonni Tischler, Steven Spielberg and Vilmos Gabor - Tampa Jewish Federation".
  5. Bennetts, Leslie. "It's a Mad, Mad, Zsa Zsa World".
  6. 1 2 The online database is based in Provo, Utah: The Generations Network, Inc. (2008); information accessed at http://www.ancestry.com on December 30, 2011.
  7. Gabor's physical attributes are stated on a February 11, 1946 airline passenger manifest, also accessed at Ancestry.com on December 30, 2011.
  8. conVistaAlMar.com.ar. "Dr. Carlos Almeida Afonseca de Sampayo Garrido".
  9. Relationship with Dr. Carlos Almeida Afonseca de Sampaio Garrido cited in "The Most Wives Club" article in Palm Springs Life (1996)
  10. Relationship with Dr. Carlo de Sampaio Garrido referenced during an interview with Magda's sister, Zsa Zsa, as cited in Vanity Fair
  11. Zsa Zsa Gábor: my story, written for me by Gerold Frank (World Publishing Co., 1960), p. 161.
  12. Paul Preston, Doves of War: Four Women of Spain (UPNE, 2002), p. 106.
  13. "The Billboard", August 23, 1947, p. 53.
  14. "Mrs. Magda Gabor Married", The New York Times, July 15, 1949
  15. "Arthur Gallucci, Contractor Here; Chief of Building Concern, Active in Charities, Dies", The New York Times, January 24, 1967.
  16. "Magda Gabor Weds in Jersey", The New York Times, April 2, 1956.
  17. Jolie Gabor, with Cindy Adams, Jolie Gabor (Mason/Charter, 1975)
  18. "Arthur Gallucci, Contractor Here—Chief of Building Concern, Active in Charities, Dies", The New York Times, January 24, 1967
  19. 1 2 "Notes on People", The New York Times, February 19, 1975.
  20. "Glamour and Goulash". Vanity Fair. July 2001.
  21. Brooks, Patricia; Brooks, Jonathan (2006). "Chapter 8: East L.A. and the Desert". Laid to Rest in California: a guide to the cemeteries and grave sites of the rich and famous. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press. p. 238. ISBN 978-0762741014. OCLC 70284362.
  22. Magda Gabor at Find a Grave

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