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

[PMF]

Kari Michaelsen from the TV series "Gimme A Break" and the movie "Saturday the 14th".

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Never heard of her. But thanks for the photo. And yes, I can definitely see why the crush. A real cutie.

 

[Richard V]

Dawn Wells
Maureen McCormick
Natalie Wood
Ann Margret
Elizabeth Montgomery (one of the sexiest women, ever)
Angela Cartwright (she was an older woman, I was 9, she was 12)
Julie Newmar

 

[Clinton McClure]

My adolescent crush was Tiffani Amber Thiessen. I don’t think I missed an episode of Saved by the Bell when I was an early teenager.

 

[dana martin]

had a thing for dark hair

 

[MarkA]

How could I have forgotten Lee Meriweather!?!?!?!!! I'd watch The Time Tunnel as much for her as the stories. She was also my absolutely favorite Cat Woman on the Batman TV series (OK... she was just in the movie but it's still the same show).

I met her at Actors and Others for Animals many years ago at Burbank Studios and she was very nice!

 

[Walter Kittel]

Definitely had a thing for Kathleen Beller in the late '70s / early '80s. Just gorgeous.

- Walter.

 

[avroman]

Jane Powell
Debbie Reynolds
and later,
Mitzi Gaynor and
Racquel Welch

 

[Arthur Powell]

Another major crush - the ever adorable Maureen O'Sullivan! Also, Lillian Roth in "Animal Crackers" certainly caught my attention!

 

[Carabimero]

Angela Cartwright.

When I was the Easter Seals Poster Child, they asked me what stars I wanted to meet to promote selling Easter Seals. I said Angela Cartwright. Turns out not only did I meet her, but Robert Young and football coach Darrell Royal, too. Together we raised more than a million dollars to fight cerebral palsy.

I'm still pen pals with Angela today.

 

[PMF]

Another major crush - the ever adorable Maureen O'Sullivan! Also, Lillian Roth in "Animal Crackers" certainly caught my attention!

Lillian Roth? Horsefeathers!! I'll take Thelma Todd.

 

[ChristopherG]

Yes to Kristy. Was she gay?

She is indeed

 

[Dick]

Katharine Ross in "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid"

A few more (they keep popping into mind)...

Katherine Ross also, when I was 17 and saw her in THE GRADUATE. Those eyes....

I also seem to recall having a thing for Natalie Wood in MIRACLE ON 34th STREET when I was a wee lad watching her on home t.v. every Christmas. Precocious -- she seemed to be smarter than me -- but cute as a button. And she sure grew up to be an adult crush of mine later in SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS.

Again as a youngster (age 6), I fell for Shirley MacLaine as Princess Aouda in AROUND THE WORLD IN 8O DAYS. She and my unsuspecting first grade teacher were vying for my affection.

I agree with RAH -- I was 10 when I saw SPARTACUS, and Jean Simmons simply melted me.

Oh, yeah -- I concur with Tuesday Weld. Incredibly desirable for an 18-year old (PRETTY POISON).

I guess my take on all of this is that, as we mature, we experience vivid fantasies and emotional longings that for the longest time seem completely out of reach...except up on that movie screen, where they are personified. It's sort of the vicarious testing ground for the romantic love we are probably born with and just don't know what to do with yet, a sort of flip side to our seeking out of scary movies as a means of getting a handle on our fears at a safe distance, until we are mature enough to cope with the real world.
Dunno...just thinkin'.

 

[PMF]

Oh, yeah -- I concur with Tuesday Weld. Incredibly desirable for an 18-year old (PRETTY POISON).

In the end, they are all pretty poison;
to which there will never be an antedote.

 

[MatthewA]

My (often painful) adolescence took place in the mid-to-late 1990s, and my crushes were a bit different from my peers':

Michael J. Fox
Rick Schroder
Mackenzie Astin
Kurt Russell
David Cassidy
Christopher Knight
Christopher Reeve
Chris O'Donnell
Jerry O'Connell
Brad Renfro
Chad Allen
Greg Bradford (Steve the delivery guy from season one of the Facts of Life)
Steve Zahn
Paul Rudd
Jason Bateman
David Morse
Peter Scolari
Joel Higgins
River Phoenix
Rob Lowe
Ted McGinley
Ted Wass
Bob Seagren (former pole vaulter who played Jodie Dallas's boyfriend Dennis Phillips, the quarterback, on Soap)
Brian Austin Green
Patrick Warburton
Fry from Futurama
Gregory Harrison
Jan-Michael Vincent
Woody Harrelson
Jeff Daniels
Jim Carrey
Dana Carvey
Bryan Callen
Dean Cain
Greg Kinnear

 

[The Obsolete Man]

My (often painful) adolescence took place in the mid-to-late 1990s, and my crushes were a bit different from my peers'...

If your adolescence was in the mid-to-late 90s, I'm sensing a lot of Nick at Nite and TV Land in your teenage years.

Same here, which is why you can pretty much list the 1995/1996 N@N line-up and figure out mine.

Mary Tyler Moore in the Dick Van Dyke Show years? Oy.

I also stumbled upon an E: True Hollywood Story about Bettie Page when I was about 15 that gave me an appreciation for brunettes with bangs that hasn't went away yet.

 

[MatthewA]

If your adolescence was in the mid-to-late 90s, I'm sensing a lot of Nick at Nite and TV Land in your teenage years.

Ee-yep.