no love for a very young Cher?!!
my mother thought i sat in front of the TV for her music & jokes.
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Your First Celebrity Crush - Spill It
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no love for a very young Cher?!!
my mother thought i sat in front of the TV for her music & jokes.
Aunty Jack - the lass on the bike
"I'll rip yer bloody arms off!"
This thread has been "Aunty Hi-Jacked"
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Hayley Mills. (No, it wasn't creepy. I was just a kid too, and she's 3 years older than me!)
Susan Dey. Would post a pic, but mine got all stuck together somehow.
These are people don'tcha know, not internet playthings!! Geez people show some decency!!! >sniff<
You and 36 million other 13-year-olds.Used to rush home every afternoon to see her
Oh, man... Same here. I was 8 or maybe 9 years old, in a department store shopping for clothes with my mom, when we walked past a carboard bin full of black&white celebrity posters: rock stars, movie stars, television stars... My attention was initially drawn to a poster of Mick Jagger from that Hyde Park concert after Brian Jones' death (and I actually did buy that poster, had it on my bedroom wall for half a dozen years). But then I saw this iconic image from One Million BC
...and it was all over. It was like getting struck by lightning. I would call it an "epiphany" except that usually epiphanies involve an enlightenment or attaining some higher level of consciousness, and this simply reduced me to a blubbering mono-syllabic mass of thrumming hormones. Which lasts to this day, almost 50 years later, whenever I see Ms. Welch. Hnnngggg....
The first Raquel movie I ever saw was Fathom. Which delightfully was on TV as I folded laundry on Saturday. The fold quality fell off quite a bit at this scene:
No piercings, no tats, just raw, natural beauty and class. WoweeWowWow!
I didn't realize there was more than one celebrity crush thread until after I got a cup of coffee & posted to the wrong thread. I can't remember which is my first crush, but here are some that haven't been mentioned yet:
Sophia Loren (enough said)
Elizabeth Taylor
Mary Ure, "Where Eagles Dare"
Claudia Cardinale, "The Professionals"
Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's Uhura (watch "Mirror, Mirror") - shoot, most of the cast & guests, too.
Good place to give a shoutout for mini-skirts, bonus for knee-high or thigh-high boots, in black or white. Can be in movies, tv or real life, since any adult is a star looked up to by a 2 year old. Guess we can add cheerleaders here too, got a kid to look up at a ball game & ask what's going on.
Peggy Lipton, The Mod Squad - I think she looks even better as she aged. See "Twin Peaks".
Josie & The Pussycats - loved all 3! The mean skunk-haired one taught me being pretty is not = being beautiful.
Barbara Streisand, "The Owl & the Pussycat" - was running around playing when it was on tv, but I paid attention when I saw her legs near the end. I remember reading the credits for the spelling of her name & listening to the adults talk about her.
Julie Andrews, probably saw Mary Poppins first. Thanks for teaching me solfège, wishing you well.
Shirley Jones - she was why I watched more than the opening credits to "The Partridge Family". Sometimes. She dropped my mouth when I saw her in a garter years later in "Elmer Gantry".
Miss Crabtree, The Little Rascal's teacher - wanted her to be my teacher when I was old enough to start school. You know I must have been little.
Mary Jane - sorry, Spidey. She tempted me to violate the Gentleman's Code of Conduct.
Karen Valentine, Room 222
Love, American Style - I stayed up w my Uncle (esp the tall brunette - Tracy Reed? Have to look her up)
Rita Moreno, The Electric Company "Hey you Guysss!" Also in West Side Story.
007 - we'll just say all of the films
the women of "Our Man Flint", fun 007 spoof
Suzanne Pleshette, Bob Newhart Show. Had trouble following the show, but I tried harder when she was speaking.
And the List has continued to grow over time.
But cannot be emphasized enough:
Julie Newmar & the catsuit
Barbara Eden & the genie costume
Raquel Welch
Ginger (nowadays I would say Mary Anne, agree 100% w above post)
Diana Rigg
Rita Hayworth pinup photo - took me awhile to learn her name, and to figure out there was colors back when the photos were black & white.
The Price is Right - yes, Dian Parkinson, & the redhead, too, she seemed like she was having fun. Well, all the models. When I found out about the Bob Barker sexual harrassment suits, guess who I rooted for - da bum.
Honorable mentions:
Bill Bixby, Courtship of Eddie's Father - opening credits looked like so much fun I wanted to have a play date w Eddie & his dad.
Brian Keith, Family Affair - see Bill Bixby. Seemed like a patient, nice man, but I wasn't in a rush to play w those kids.
Jack Lord - I was allowed to watch the pilot of Hawaii Five-O, & the first hula dance I saw was captivating. I wanted to visit Hawaii & be Jack Lord's wingman as he showed me the islands and introduced me to beautiful dancers. During kindergarten recess the two favorite games to play in the sandbox was Star Trek & Hawaii Five-O.
Sean Connery - see Jack Lord (aka CIA agent Felix), but the world would be my oyster.
Robert Wagner, It Takes a Thief - a PG Sean Connery.
Sophia Loren (enough said)
Elizabeth Taylor
Mary Ure, "Where Eagles Dare"
Claudia Cardinale, "The Professionals"
Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's Uhura (watch "Mirror, Mirror") - shoot, most of the cast & guests, too.
Good place to give a shoutout for mini-skirts, bonus for knee-high or thigh-high boots, in black or white. Can be in movies, tv or real life, since any adult is a star looked up to by a 2 year old. Guess we can add cheerleaders here too, got a kid to look up at a ball game & ask what's going on.
Peggy Lipton, The Mod Squad - I think she looks even better as she aged. See "Twin Peaks".
Josie & The Pussycats - loved all 3! The mean skunk-haired one taught me being pretty is not = being beautiful.
Barbara Streisand, "The Owl & the Pussycat" - was running around playing when it was on tv, but I paid attention when I saw her legs near the end. I remember reading the credits for the spelling of her name & listening to the adults talk about her.
Julie Andrews, probably saw Mary Poppins first. Thanks for teaching me solfège, wishing you well.
Shirley Jones - she was why I watched more than the opening credits to "The Partridge Family". Sometimes. She dropped my mouth when I saw her in a garter years later in "Elmer Gantry".
Miss Crabtree, The Little Rascal's teacher - wanted her to be my teacher when I was old enough to start school. You know I must have been little.
Mary Jane - sorry, Spidey. She tempted me to violate the Gentleman's Code of Conduct.
Karen Valentine, Room 222
Love, American Style - I stayed up w my Uncle (esp the tall brunette - Tracy Reed? Have to look her up)
Rita Moreno, The Electric Company "Hey you Guysss!" Also in West Side Story.
007 - we'll just say all of the films
the women of "Our Man Flint", fun 007 spoof
Suzanne Pleshette, Bob Newhart Show. Had trouble following the show, but I tried harder when she was speaking.
And the List has continued to grow over time.
But cannot be emphasized enough:
Julie Newmar & the catsuit
Barbara Eden & the genie costume
Raquel Welch
Ginger (nowadays I would say Mary Anne, agree 100% w above post)
Diana Rigg
Rita Hayworth pinup photo - took me awhile to learn her name, and to figure out there was colors back when the photos were black & white.
The Price is Right - yes, Dian Parkinson, & the redhead, too, she seemed like she was having fun. Well, all the models. When I found out about the Bob Barker sexual harrassment suits, guess who I rooted for - da bum.
Honorable mentions:
Bill Bixby, Courtship of Eddie's Father - opening credits looked like so much fun I wanted to have a play date w Eddie & his dad.
Brian Keith, Family Affair - see Bill Bixby. Seemed like a patient, nice man, but I wasn't in a rush to play w those kids.
Jack Lord - I was allowed to watch the pilot of Hawaii Five-O, & the first hula dance I saw was captivating. I wanted to visit Hawaii & be Jack Lord's wingman as he showed me the islands and introduced me to beautiful dancers. During kindergarten recess the two favorite games to play in the sandbox was Star Trek & Hawaii Five-O.
Sean Connery - see Jack Lord (aka CIA agent Felix), but the world would be my oyster.
Robert Wagner, It Takes a Thief - a PG Sean Connery.
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no love for a very young Cher?!!
my mother thought i sat in front of the TV for her music & jokes.
Cher really did it for me on Half Breed:
OK - Don't even have to think on that one. Mary Elizabeth Winstead. She's on some PBS miniseries called Mercy Street that my wife is into, caught my eye immediately even though she is rather ordinary looking in it, I saw something there.....it's in the eyes. Seems she's been an actress for some time now......thanks Google!
If my memory serves me well - by ignoring all my previous posts - it would be projecting visions like this. Linda's second mention,
Ah, Tracy Reed...she's also Mona the waitress in "Car Wash." She is foine!!! And I intentionally spelled it that way!
This is my dilemma as well. I did the best I could to narrow down the list, and I'll probably post more as they come to mind.
Between this thread and the "Things You Don't See Anymore" thread, I get my daily nostalgia fix!
