Pulchritude of Zsa Zsa Gabor reign on 19th and 20th
century
Zsa Zsa Gabor Actor and socialite
pioneered the concept of celebrity ‘famous for being famous’ and created her
personality as a brand in 19th century. She being a Hungarian-American girl her
career spread over Cinema, Reality TV and Social Media.
She has many classical films on her
shoulder, to name a few are John Huston’s Moulin Rouge (1952) and Orson
Welles’s Touch of Evil (1958). Zsa Zsa
Gabor wrote novels - ‘How to Catch a Man, How to Keep a Man, How to Get Rid of
a Man.’
Watchdogs have wrote on Gabor about
her own constructed image of glamour and exoticism , giving off a scent of
money, cigarettes, sex, Riviera holidays it was addressed as “dahlink”.
She triggered many one-liners to
matrimonial industry. “I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I
keep his house,” In public and private she always been the grandest of dames.
“Diamonds are a girl’s best friend and dogs are a man’s best friend.”
“Husbands are like fires – they go out when unattended” – Newsweek,
28 March 1960.
“I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back” – The
Observer, 28 August 1957
When how many husbands she had had asked: “You mean
apart from my own?” – I Wish I’d said That! by Kenneth Edwards, 1967
A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she
finds it – Colombo’s Concise Canadian Quotations, 1979.
He taught me housekeeping; when I
divorce I keep the house – on her fifth husband, quoted by Ned
Sherrin in Cutting Edge, 1984.
I don’t remember anybody’s name. Why do you think the
‘dahling’ thing started? – Hollywood Wits, K Madsen Roth, 1995.
She once stated, "Men have always liked me and I have
always liked men.
"But I like a mannish man, a man who knows how to talk
to and treat a woman – not just a man with muscles."
Gabor shown her precocity on media
and proved how lucrative self-promotion, She played the character of Gabor (self) in
her first movie, Lovely to Look At (1952), and her last, A Very Brady Sequel (1996).
In 1940s when she had her European
roots and allure, she used Gabor name in showbiz to echo it as Garbo, already a
star. She changed her first name to Zelda, sharpened her skills to voice school
to get rid of Budapest vowels. Gabor kept the name, some time interviewers and
fans pronounced Zsa Zsa, it created the doubled purring sound resulted into an
exotic and sensual mystique.
To call Zsa Zsa Gabor a
proto-Kardashian though is to underestimate her charm and her allure. Zsa
Zsa Gabor was known for flaunting striking consumption; dripping with jewels,
her image was that of a woman who knew how to get what she wanted.
She has always been ahead of time;
she was liberal on liking sex much before the sexual revolution of 1960s. She
had courtship with Sean Connery and Frank Sinatra, John F Kennedy, Elvis
Presley, John Huston and Henry Fonda.
Sari Gabor alias Zsa Zsa Gabor was
born in Budapest, probably in 1918, to a soldier father and Jewish mother with
American connections. Her film career spread
over 1952 to 1994. She had a huge TV career as a reality show host. She has
always been in headlines for her own persona. She has given birth to a concept
of own personality as a brand. Zsa Zsa
Gabor said goodbye to this world at the age 99.
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is a cinema critic and media teacher from last 15 years.
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