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The native form of this personal name is Gábor Magdolna. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Magda Gabor
Born
Magdolna Gábor

(1914-06-11)11 June 1914
Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Died6 June 1997(1997-06-06) (aged 82)
Palm Springs, California
Occupation(s)Actress, socialite
Years active1937–1991
Spouse(s)Jan Bychowski
(m.1937-1946; divorced)
William Rankin
(m.1946-1947; divorced)
Sidney R. Warren
(m.1947-1950; divorced)
Arthur Gallucci
(m.1956-1957; divorced)
George Sanders
(m.1970-1971; annulled)
Tibor Heltai
(m.1972-1973; divorced)
Parent(s)Vilmos Gábor
Jancsi Tilleman

Magdolna "Magda" Gabor (11 June 1914 – 6 June 1997)[1][2] was a Hungarian-born actress and socialite, and the elder sister of Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor.

Background

The eldest daughter of jeweler Jolie (c.1896-1997) and soldier Vilmos Gábor (1884-1962), she was born in 1915 in Budapest.[3] Of Jewish descent, she is listed in Hungary: Jewish Names from the Central Zionist Archives, under her first married name, as Magda Bychowsky.[4] She stood 5'6" tall with red hair and gray eyes.[5]

During World War II, Gabor was reported to have been the fiancée of the Portuguese ambassador to Hungary, Dr. Carlos Almeida Afonseca de Sampayo Garrido; another source claims she was his mistress and another claims she was his aide.[6][7][8] After she fled to Portugal in 1944, following the Nazi occupation of Hungary, and, with Sampayo's assistance, she was reportedly the mistress of a Spanish nobleman, José Luis de Vilallonga.[9]

Gabor arrived in the United States in February 1946, from Natal, Brazil, intending to stay in the country for one year and apparently return to Lisbon, Portugal, where she was living. However, within a year of her arrival she married an American (see below) and remained in the country.[10]

Marriages

Gabor was married to:

  • Jan Bychowsky (1902–1944), reportedly a Polish count and RAF pilot. He should not be confused with RAF Polish Squadron navigator, Sgt. Jan Ryszard Bychowski, a Polish Jewish intellectual and poet, who died May 22, 1944 in England, at the age of 22.[11] They married in 1937 and divorced in 1946.[12]
  • William M. Rankin (1900–1966), American playwright and screenwriter (The Harvey Girls, among other films); the couple wed in 1946 and divorced in Los Angeles on August 11, 1947.[13]
  • Sidney Robert Warren, an attorney. They married in Riverhead, Long Island, New York, on July 14, 1949 and divorced the following year.[14]
  • Arthur Gallucci, president of Samuel Gallucci & Son, "one of the oldest building contracting concerns in the United States".[15][16][17] They married in Franklin, New Jersey, on April 1, 1956. He died of cancer in 1967.[18]
  • George Sanders, a British actor, who had previously been married to Zsa Zsa Gabor. They married in Riverside, California, on December 4, 1970. The marriage was annulled in February 1971.[19]
  • Tibor R. Heltai, an economic consultant who became a real-estate broker. They married in Southampton, New York, on August 5, 1972, separated in June 1973, and divorced two years later in 1975.[19]

Death

More than three decades after suffering a incapacitating stroke, Magda Gabor died on 6 June 1997, from renal failure, two months after the death of her mother,[20] and was interred in Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California.[1]

Bibliography

  • Anthony Turtu and Donald F. Reuter Gaborabilia, Three Rivers Press, 2001; ISBN 0-609-80759-5

References

  1. ^ a b Palm Springs Cemetery District, "Interments of Interest"
  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). The information was accessed on ancestry.com on December 30, 2011.
  3. ^ Hungary: Jewish Names from the Central Zionist Archives, an online database (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2008)
  4. ^ The database is online and based in Provo, Utah: The Generations Network, Inc.(2008). The information was accessed at Ancestry.com on December 30, 2011.
  5. ^ Gabor's physical attributes are stated on a February 11, 1946 airline passenger manifest, also accessed at Ancestry.com on December 30, 2011.
  6. ^ Relationship with Dr. Carlos Almeida Afonseca de Sampayo Garrido cited in "The Most Wives Club" article in Palm Springs Life (1996)
  7. ^ Relationship with Dr. Carlo de Sampayo also mentioned in an interview with Magda's sister, Zsa Zsa, as cited in Vanity Fair
  8. ^ Zsa Zsa Gábor: my story, written for me by Gerold Frank (World Publishing Co., 1960), p.161
  9. ^ Paul Preston, Doves of War: Four Women of Spain (UPNE, 2002), p. 106
  10. ^ Information stated on February 11, 1946 airline passenger manifest, accessed at ancestry.com on December 30, 2011.
  11. ^ Jan Ryszard Bychowski's career is cited in Poland Fights: Issues 53–76; (NY: American Friends of Polish Democracy, International Coordination Council, Polish Labor Group, 1944), and in Le Gouvernement polonais en exil et la persécution des juifs en France en 1942 (Cerf, 1997), pp. 208, 217
  12. ^ Gabor gave her name as Magda de Bychowsky and her marital status as divorced on a February 11, 1946 airline passenger manifest, accessed on ancestry.com, December 30, 2011; according to this form, she had left her city of residence (Lisbon, Portugal), where she lived at 17 Buenos Aires, and arrived in New York City to visit her family.
  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. ^ a b "Notes on People", The New York Times, February 19, 1975
  20. ^ "Glamour and Goulash". Vanity Fair. July 2001.

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