Zsa Zsa Gabor needs leg surgery

Actor and socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor will have to have part of a leg amputated, according to her publicist.

Doctors examined a growing lesion on one ofthe 93-year-old Gabor's legs on Sunday and determined she should return to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles for surgery, publicist John Blanchette said.

The Hungarian-born actress broke her hip last July after a fall at her Bel Air mansion and has been in and out of hospital several times. Last August, when her condition worsened, she asked for a priest to administerthe last rites.

Gabor's Hollywood career began with television appearances.

Her first film was MGM's Lovely to Look At, in 1952, co-starring Kathryn Grayson and Red Skelton, but her big break came later that year in John Huston's Toulouse Lautrec biopic, Moulin Rouge, opposite Jose Ferrer.

She subsequently slipped back into supporting roles with parts in movies such as Lili (1953), Death of A Scoundrel (1956) and the Orson Welles classic Touch of Evil (1958).

In the 1960s and '70s, she appeared as herself in movies, and became better known for her celebrity lifestyle, her many marriages, her Shih Tzu dogs and rapier wit.