Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is currently recovering from a successful hip-replacement surgery at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. The 93-year-old entertainer reportedly suffered a broken hip when she fell from her bed on July 17, 2010. Gabor’s 3-1/2-hour hip replacement operation was performed on Monday, July 19th.
She was recovering last week, but required a blood transfusion on Friday, July 23rd to stabilize her condition. Husband Frederic Prinz von Anhalt told Entertainment Tonight that doctors switched Gabor’s pain medication to morphine after he “signed the papers and pushed the doctors Friday night to get aggressive,” adding “it looks like everything they did is going to kick in.” Anhalt reported the actress is doing much better this week, although she’s still listed in critical condition.
Prior to fracturing her hip, Zsa Zsa Gabor was “pretty much confined to a wheelchair” said publicist John Blanchette, due to serious injuries sustained in a 2002 car accident on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Zsa Zsa Gabor was born Sari Gabor in Budapest, Hungary between 1917 and 1919 – sources are unclear as to the exact date. Between Eva and Magda, she is the second of three famous Gabor sisters. After following sister Eva to Hollywood, Zsa Zsa began appearing on television shows and occasionally in movies.
Zsa Zsa earned starring roles in several memorable movies during the early 1950s, starring in her best known films during this period. These include John Huston’s Moulin Rouge (1952), The Story of Three Loves (1953), The Girl in the Kremlin (1957), and the classic Orson Welle’s film Touch of Evil (1958). As her acting career waned during the 1960s and ’70s, Gabor took more supporting roles and often appeared as herself in movies.
The persona of Zsa Zsa Gabor as a glamorous, platinum blonde diva blurred the lines between celebrity and reality. Today, Gabor is most well known for her eight marriages, enless appearances in gossip columns, self-deprecating cameos, bawdy social commentary, and her “dahlink” catchphrase. She’s one of the original Hollywood starlets and continues to delight fans both young and old.
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