Our Adolescent Crushes..... (1 Viewer)

[Dick]

When I was a youngster, I fell head-over-heels in love with

Shirley MacLaine as Princess Aouda in AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (I was six when I saw this!)

Yvette Mimieux as Weena in THE TIME MACHINE (I was ten)

 

[Angelo Colombus]

Myrna Loy in all of her films!

 

[Scott Merryfield]

Cyd Charisse when I first saw her in Brigadoon.

Olivia Newton-John in Grease (I was in high school)

Valerie Bertinelli in the TV series One Day at a Time (we are close to the same age, so there's still a chance )

 

[skylark68]

Probably my first was Olivia Newton John in Xanadu (I was about 6 or 7 when I first saw it on TV), but as I got a little older it was definitely Elisabeth Shue in Back to the Future and Karate Kid... Then of course, Adventures in Babysitting!

The Landers sisters were big time crushes too. I remember perusing the posters at Spencer's Gifts at the mall quite a few times and admiring their "charms".

 

[jcroy]

- Tina Turner

- Catherine Oxenberg

 

[PMF]

Katharine Ross in "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid"

 

[Keith Cobby]

Judi Bowker (Clash of the Titans)

Livvy (Grease/Xanadu)

 

[Brandon Conway]

Reese Witherspoon in A Far Off Place. She was my age so it made it seem a more reasonable possibility.

 

[RBailey]

Barbara Eden

 

[PMF]

Katharine Ross in "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid"

Reese Witherspoon in A Far Off Place. She was my age so it made it seem a more reasonable possibility.

"Reasonable" never entered my mind...plus, I also owned my own bike.

 

[PMF]

Barbara Eden

Oh yes, yes and yes!!!
When I was younger, I never understood Major Healey's issues.
I always thought to myself, "What's the hold-up, here? Is this guy nuts?"
I mean, really, who needs to be in the NASA space program when Jeannie, herself, can fly you to the moon?

 

[atfree]

Jaclyn Smith from Charlies Angels
Faye Dunaway

 

[PMF]

- Tina Turner

- Catherine Oxenberg

jcroy, here's a bit of hope for you.
I would say that your chances at Oxenberg are far, far greater than her own; in terms of gaining the throne.
She is in at the 1,375th position for succession.
My suggested opening line would be, "I believe in you".
Try it out and fingers crossed...we're all rooting for ya.

 

[Arthur Powell]

Where do I start?
My crushes as an adolescent, budding film and TV buff in the mid to late 1990s:
Joan Leslie
Evelyn Ankers
Jeanne Crain
Myrna Loy
Olivia de Havilland
Bonita Granville
Ann Rutherford
Anita Page
Sybil Seeley
Marceline Day
Dawn Wells (Team Mary Ann FTW)
Pat Priest and Beverley Owen
The Petticoat Junction Girls (especially Lori Saunders and Linda Kaye Henning)

Blast it! I was born way too late!

 

[BobO'Link]

Barbara Eden
Elizabeth Montgomery
Inger Stevens
Myrna Loy
Maureen O'Hara
Whitney Blake ("mom" on Hazel)
Raquel Welch
Gina Lollobrigida
Carolyn Jones (Morticia - The Addams Family)
Gloria Talbot
Evelyn Ankers (The Wolf Man)
Rita Hayworth
Ingrid Bergman
Grata Garbo
Natalie Wood
Donna Reed
Ginger Rogers
Olivia de Havilland
Julie Newmar
Diana Rigg
Dawn Wells (I always liked Mary Ann more than Ginger)
Lori Saunders (Petticoat Junction)
Jeanne Crain

I'm sure there are more if I really think about it...

 

[PMF]

Actually, my list is not limited to one; but, at the time, I could only make my allowance stretch just only so far.
After all, since we did have substitute teachers at our school, one must always be prepared for the possible
arrival of one Miss Etta Place.

 

[Robert Harris]

Jean Simmons

And she turned out to be far more extraordinary than I had ever imagined!

 

[trajan007]

Hayley Mills---Julie Christie

 

[Blimpoy06]

Cheryl Ladd

 

[John Dirk]

"I decline to answer on the grounds that I might incriminate myself."