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Gaborabilia: An Illustrated Celebration of the Fabulous, Legendary Gabor Sisters

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This tribute to the fabulous, witty Gabor sisters (and mother) is truly the ultimate fan's tribute. Practicaly everything in the book is from the author's personal collection. Bursting with photos, memorabilia, and classic quips, this book is a visual extravaganza with color and glamour everywhere, much like the excellent Gabors. Of course, the book, by its very nature, has a limited audience, and if you're viewing this, you're probably committed to buying the book, but let me encourage you: Get it now.

Bottom Line: While short on biographical info (see "Such Devoted Sisters" for that), this book is full of frosting and glamour, the perfect tribute to the frothy Gabor family.

It would have been a sad world indeed without the fabulous Gabors, their wit, wisdom, beauty and charisma and above all their glamour has kept us spellbound for decades. This book is a celebration of their lives and acheivements, I only wish it was twice as big. Filled with photos movie posters and memorabilia, it lists the Gabor sisters various appearances in Las Vegas, in stage shows and on the big and small screen. People forget Zsa Zsa starred in many memorable movies like 'Lovely to Look At', 'Moulin Rouge', 'Lili', 'Death of a Scoundrel','Queen of Outer Space', 'Arriverderci Baby' & 'Naked Gun 2 1/2' and Eva's films included 'The Mad Magician', 'The Last Time I Saw Paris', 'Artists and Models', 'Gigi' and 'The Aristocats', as well as having a cult following on the 60's T.V classic Green Acres. These women never stopped working and supporting themselves, making legendary guest appearances on countless T.V shows and having everything they said and did reported in the columns. They never stopped partying either, or changing husbands. In glorious gowns they adorned the covers of countless magazines and tabloids and have themselves written tell-all books on their lives. This coffee table book celebrates their journey from El Morocco to Studio 54, it showcases their style as true Hollywood celebrities and legends. "A wry and sumptuous look into the world of celebrity" Robert Rechter.

This is a great little book when you need a little glamourous inspiration in your life! The Gabors (all of them) were every inch stars: glamourous dresses, giant jewels, and witty quotes, such as "I ask myself more questions than Hamlet as I ponder which shoes to wear" (Eva) or "How many husbands have I had - you mean apart from my own?" (Zsa Zsa). I love it! This book celebrates the Gabors and their larger than life presence from the Hungarian beginning through their celebrity in Hollywood. In short, it is simply vonderful, dahling!

We all have days on which we are down in the dumps and need a little glamor. Gabors ARE glamor. Beautiful, colorful book. Buy it for the makeup tips alone!

just amazing ,and funny, the gabors are an institution , and very enduring as well, the lost of three of them does not change a long history of glamour and wit, i had the pleasure of meeting zsa zsa few years ago ,and she was a riot/ i presented her with a pastel drawing of herself, and she was very pleased...........long live the princess. machi babachi

Unless somebody decides to sit down and write a Citadel Press-style "The Films of the Gabor Sisters" book, this is the most comprehensive collection of photos and memorabilia of Zsa Zsa, Eva and Magda one is likely to find readily available anywhere (I don't count the autobiographies written by Eva and Zsa Zsa, which are starting to get hard to find). The dedicated fan/author Mr. Turtu has brought together a splendid collection of B&W and color photos, movie posters, lobby cards, magazine covers and other artifacts of the beauteous, much-wedded Gabor sisters for the delectation of readers. As several other reviewers have said, this is exactly the sort of book you'll want to display on my coffee table - I'll have to clear some room on my own very crowded table to make room for it! Recommended without hesitation to any Gabor fan.

My cousin had given me "GABORABILIA" for Christmas, and I didn't even know that this book was out, let alone published.

Although it talked about all of the plays, television shows, and movies that they did (although Magda wasn't in show business), they should have went into more detail about them and their husbands, as well as showed pictures of them with their husbands as well. Also, it should have told if any of their husbands are either still living or are dead. I know that most of Zsa Zsa's husbands, Eva's second husband, and Magda's fourth husband are all dead (Eva's second husband died of cancer after they had got divorced), I'd like to know if the rest of their husbands are still living.

Fabulous. I only wish there were more of it. I can't wait for the sequel.

Very fun book on the Gabors. Great idea & title. Mostly great photos. But...to my great surprise and disapointment, Zsa Zsa's most gorgeous pin-up movie poster, most sought after, most famous is "Queen Of Outer Space" - there is not ONE picture of the American 1-sheet film poster! HOW could you omit that???! If you can't afford the original, the author could have bought a copy on Ebay and photographed that. A glaring omission! The slapping of the cop incident is poorly covered too. So, depending on what you are looking for - it's fun.

This was shipped in a very timely fashion....and a blast into the past. Lots of great pictures of people my husband and I remember ....and we learned a lot of things of interest about their lives. Unseen pictures to us....a happy purchase.