Surgery success for actress
NZPA San Francisco The actress. Janet Gaynor, improving slowly but steadily from critical’injuries suf-, fered in a car crash, has undergone successful surgery to remove a blood clot.
Dr Frank Lewis said yesterday that the screen star remained in a serious but stable condition in San Francisco General Hospital's intensive care unit.
Dr Lewis said that he operated earlier this week to remove a blood clot from Miss Gaynor's pelvis, and said she might leave the intensive care unit in one to three weeks.
She was injured on September 5 when a van slammed into a taxi taking Miss Gaynor and her husband, Paul Gregory, broadway actress Mary Martin and her manager Ben
Washer to a Chinatown res taurant.
Mr Washer, aged 76, was killed. Mr Gregory, aged 62. and Miss Martin’ aged 66. star of the films “South Pacific” and "Peter Pan." have since been released from the hospital.
Miss Gaynor, who won the first Academy award for best actress in 1928, is still breathing with the help of a respirator, but her dependency on it is decreasing, said a hospital spokeswoman, Linda De La Ysla. Her abdominal infection had been controlled and her liver and kidney function were fine, said Dr Lewis.
Awake and responsive. Miss Gaynor marked her seventy-sixth birthday on Wednesday. Both her husband and Miss Martin visited her this week.
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