Gila Golan () is an Israeli actress and former model.
Early life
Golan does not know when or where she was born. Her parents were murdered in the
The Holocaust and she was adopted by Zoshia Zawatcki, who saw her wandering the streets of Kraków.
She was given the name Zoshia Zavatski by her Polish family and renamed to Mara Goldenberg in Israel.
She also used the names Miriam Goldenberg and Gila Goldenberg.
Golan attended a Youth Aliyah boarding school in Aix-les-Bains, France for two years before moving to Israel on January 14, 1948. She worked at a kibbutz for four years.
Career
Golan was spotted by an American photographer and appeared in the Israeli women's magazine
LaIsha.
In 1960, she was the runner-up for
Miss Israel behind
Aliza Gur.
She placed second in the Miss World 1960 competition
and changed her name to Gila Golan to prevent the religiously conservative family she lived with in Tel Aviv from learning about it.
[ LIFE Magazine, 2 Oct 1964, Vol. 57, No. 14, 135] She was sent to the United States to raise funds after the competition.
[ LIFE Magazine, 2 Oct 1964, Vol. 57, No. 14, 135]
In June 1964, Golan signed a contract with Columbia Pictures. Her first role was as Elsa Lutz in Ship of Fools
Golan starred in Our Man Flint,
Personal life
Golan married Alex Urban in 1964, but became separated in 1965, and divorced in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in 1967.
She married Matthew Bernard Rosenhaus on September 16, 1969, in
Montreal, Canada, and had three children with him.
Rosenhaus became the largest stockholder in Columbia in 1973.
The city of Seattle ceremonially adopted Golan on April 29, 1966, with Mayor James d'Orma Braman as her godfather.
Filmography
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| 1965 | Ship of Fools | Elsa | | |
| Kraft Suspense Theatre | Constanze “Tantsy” Lipp | Episode: The Safe House | |
| 1966 | Our Man Flint | Gila | | |
| Three on a Couch | Anna Jacque | | |
| I Dream of Jeannie | Princess Tarji | Episode: This is Murder | |
| 1967 | Catch as Catch Can | Emma | | |
| 1969 | The Valley of Gwangi | T.J. | | |
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Works cited
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