Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor dies aged 99

Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, who parlayed beauty, diamond-studded glamour and nine marriages into a long celebrity career, died last Sunday. She was 99. While her acting skills were rarely lauded, Zsa Zsa Gabor carved out a career in her early days in Hollywood. Her finest film roles came with “Moulin Rouge”, where she earned good reviews, in 1952 and “Lili” in 1953. She appeared in more than 30 movies and by the 1970s she began to reject smaller roles, saying: “I may be a character but I do not want to be a character actress.” Gabor eventually ended up in low-budget films. Greater success came with nightclub and TV appearances where she disclosed she called everyone “dah-ling” because she could not remember names well, and she relied on self-parodying jokes. “I am a marvellous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house,” she was quoted as saying.