Green Acres TV Show – Videos, Actors, Photos and Episodes from the Classic Television Show

Delicious, charming, and divine, Eva Gabor was born in Budapest, Hungary on Feb 11 1926. She was the baby of the family -- her big sisters were Magda and Sari (better known as Zsa Zsa) -- and the first to emigrate to the United States. Miss Gabor signed a contract with Paramount Pictures shortly after her arrival in the U.S., and she appeared in many films and stage productions in the 1950s. A little known biography note although it seems incredible now, Miss Gabor was not the first choice for the role of Lisa. Jay Sommers wanted actress Martha Hyer, who was known for playing cool rich-girl roles; Hyer, however, wanted too much money. Sommers had in mind a more "all-American" actress to play the role before finally being persuaded by Paul Henning to cast the Hungarian beauty. Henning and his wife had seen Miss Gabor in the Broadway play The Happy Time a few years prior, and he believed Miss Gabor's glamour was the perfect foil for the country-bumpkin setting of Green Acres. Luckily, Henning's good instincts prevailed.

Off-screen, Miss Gabor was great friends with co-star Eddie Albert and his wife, Margo. Miss Gabor and Albert were reunited on-stage in the 1983 Broadway production of You Can't Take it With You, and in the Green Acres reunion, Return to Green Acres, in 1991. Miss Gabor is also easily identifiable as the voice of Bianca in Disney's The Rescuers (1977) and The Rescuers Down Under (1990), and as well the refined and elegant cat Duchess in Disney's The Aristocats (1970). Miss Gabor died in 1995 in Los Angeles, California, and the world has been a far less fabulous place ever since.