The Resource Finding Zsa Zsa : the Gabors behind the legend, Sam Staggs
Finding Zsa Zsa : the Gabors behind the legend, Sam Staggs
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The item Finding Zsa Zsa : the Gabors behind the legend, Sam Staggs represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Kent District Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- "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 Culled from new interviews with family, colleagues, and confidantes, and the unpublished memoirs of the author's friend Francesca Hilton, Finding Zsa Zsa finally introduces fans to the Gabor family they never knew, including many never-before-seen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."--amazon.com
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 420 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781496719591
- Label
- Finding Zsa Zsa : the Gabors behind the legend
- Title
- Finding Zsa Zsa
- Title remainder
- the Gabors behind the legend
- Statement of responsibility
- Sam Staggs
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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."--amazon.com
- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- NjBwBT
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Staggs, Sam
- Dewey number
- 791.092/273
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PN2285
- LC item number
- .S63 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Gabor family
- Gabor, Zsa Zsa
- Gabor, Eva
- Gabor, Magda
- Actors
- Celebrities
- Label
- Finding Zsa Zsa : the Gabors behind the legend, Sam Staggs
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-399) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- sky296493014
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- xii, 420 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781496719591
- Lccn
- bl2019017569
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Note
- nj 07/19
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- Label
- Finding Zsa Zsa : the Gabors behind the legend, Sam Staggs
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-399) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- sky296493014
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- xii, 420 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781496719591
- Lccn
- bl2019017569
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Note
- nj 07/19
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
Library Locations
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KDL Cascade Twp. BranchBorrow it2870 Jacksmith Ave. SE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49546, US42.9117597 -85.5043438
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