Legendary Hollywood actress Zsa Zsa Gabor dies, aged 99
Ruth Sherlock,
washington
19 DECEMBER 2016 •
5:52AM
Zsa Zsa Gabor, the
actress and iconic Beverley Hills socialite has died at 99-years of
age of a heart attack at her Los Angeles home, her husband said.
"We tried
everything, but her heart just stopped and that was it," he
said. "Even the ambulance tried very hard to get her back, but
there was no way," husband Frederic von Anhalt told The
Associated Press.
Though appearing in
some 70-movies, the Hungarian born rose to fame in greater part on
her outlandish personality, extravagant lifestyle and extraordinary
series of nine marriages.
“Every age has its
Madame Pompadour, its Lady Hamilton, its Queen of Sheba, it’s
Cleopatra," George Sanders, the Oscar-winning actor and one of
Gabor's husbands wrote his 1992 autobiography.
"I wouldn’t
be surprised if history singles out Zsa Zsa as its 20th century
prototype of this exclusive coterie".
Emigrating to the US
with her mother and two sisters Magda and Eva, both celebrated
beauties, at the time of the outbreak of World War Two, she quickly
build a career before the television cameras.
Her more serious
acting credits include the 1952 film Moulin Rouge, Lovely to Look At
and We’re Not Married. In 1958, appeared in Touch of Evil as well
as the campy oddity Queen of Outer Space.
But thereafter she
appeared on the big screen only rarely, appearing in such ditzy
showreels as Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood. She did
cameos for Nightmare on Elm Street 3 and A Very Brady Sequel.
Always clad in
diamonds, and furs, the former Miss Hungary took her first husband at
the age of 20, and wed for the last time when she was 69-years old.
Exuding a blond diva
'sex bomb' swagger, Gabor parlayed the stories of her dramatic love
life into capital for infamy.
I
am a marvellous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his
house
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Writing a book
called "How to Catch a Man", she became known for her witty
quips about her marriage.
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.
A darling of live
television entertainment, when she was once asked about her
housekeeping, she retorted: “I am a marvellous housekeeper. Every
time I leave a man, I keep his house.”
She became a darling
of live television entertainment, and when she was once asked about
her housekeeping, she retorted: “I am a marvelous housekeeper.
Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.”
She had a penchant
for calling everyone “darling.” “I don’t remember anybody’s
name,” she once said. “How do you think the ‘dahling’ thing
got started?
Former spouses
included Conrad Hilton, the founder of the Hilton Hotels chain.
After divorcing Gabor, Mr Sanders, the Oscar winning actor, later
married her sister Magda.
Her extravagance got
her into trouble on occasion and in 1989, she was convicted of
slapping a Beverly Hills policeman and sentenced to 72 hours in jail
and perform community service. In 2002, she was involved in a serious
car accident on Sunset Boulevard as the passenger in a car driven by
her hairdresser.
During more recent
years, often played herself in ironic roles. She appeared in one of
David Letterman’s Late Night shows. Accompanying the host to
suburban New Jersey, they appeared on doorsteps with Gabor asking
the stunned housewives if she could come in and take a look at the
shoes in their closets.
She even parlayed
her jail term into maintaining a spot in the public eye, appearing in
the main title sequence of The Naked Gun 2.
Ed Lozzi, a
publicist for Gabor, first announced that Gabor passed away.
Gabor fell out of
bed in 2010 and underwent hip-replacement surgery this summer at in
Los Angeles.
Her right leg was
amputated above the knee in 2011 to prevent the spread of gangrene,
part of a long run of health troubles glamour girl has had since
breaking her left hip in a fall.
Photos by The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2016/dec/19/zsa-zsa-gabor-a-life-in-pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2016/dec/19/zsa-zsa-gabor-a-life-in-pictures
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