To love... a weakness..."

She became such a caricature as she aged it's easy to overlook what initially put her in the realm of notorious celebrity-hood: an overwhelming  zaftig physique, enchanting visage, sexy voice and a dominating / teasing manner...  In the 1950s men went crazy for such a package and a peculiarity of her success is she didn't start appearing in American movies until she was well into her thirties, starting out old, and somehow the older she got the more powerfully sexy she became, racking up multi-millionaire husbands at a laughable rate...  Seems no matter how successful a guy is, he'll always have a mommy-fixation (just ask Merv Griffin)... What makes her unique among WOmWAm-oriented actresses is that her character persona is based more on her real life than fiction...  Most actresses are real  people who play fantasy women, but the differences  between Zsa Zsa and the characters she played was very slight: she was indeed an enchanting, gold-digging, Dominant Femme who used men to advance herself, and by the time of mid-60s tv, show writers were creating characters based on her life image... (Erika Tiffany Smith, Minerva, etc.)