# Ever had a crush on someone famous... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 20, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673 "2009-02-20T04:00:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amber_in_Treasury)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/1 "2009-02-20T04:00:49Z")
…who died either before you were born, or when you were still a child? And much later, after coming of age, you saw pictures of them and heard their voice and were mesmerized? And felt weird for having a crush on a _dead_ celebrity (who was über-hot when he/she was alive)? Because, that’s exactly what happened to me quite recently. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/2 "2009-02-20T04:13:44Z")
Audrey Hepburn died when I was 11, so I think she fits, but I don’t feel weird at all for acknowledging that she was one of the most beautiful celebrities I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/3 "2009-02-20T04:17:30Z")
This doesn’t _quite_ qualify, but…Katharine Hepburn. She was 58 the year I was born, and died when I was 38. And, even as an olde woman, she was striking. But, when I was an adult, and saw pictures and films of her when she was young…WOW. ---
**Author:** ![DataZak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@DataZak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataZak)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/4 "2009-02-20T04:28:15Z")
Audrey Hepburn for me too. I was about 10 I think and it was _My Fair Lady_. This was in the early '80s. I still have a crush on her and do not feel weird about it. ---
**Author:** ![Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amber_in_Treasury)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/5 "2009-02-20T05:10:21Z")
I wonder if there’s a name for that condition? For me - I’ve mentioned it before - it’s Luke Kelly. Yes, the Ginger Dubliner to end all Ginger Dubliners. He died of a goddamn brain tumor exactly 4 months and 8 days after I was born. No, he certainly didn’t have a “classic male beauty” or “pretty boy” face, but I find him strangely handsome. And don’t get me started on his voice, charisma and integrity. (Holy shit, that VOICE!) Yes, I’m a bit crazy about Luke - but as he said once, _my head’s only woolly on the outside!_ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/6 "2009-02-20T05:28:22Z")
Greta Garbo. I had to watch _Camille_ twice: once to moon over Garbo, once to figure out what was going on. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/7 "2009-02-20T05:30:00Z")
Peter Tosh for me. I actually ached to know he was dead and I never got a chance to see him in concert and feel his magic in the same room as me. Audrey Hepburn is interesting. I know a lot of men who had a crush on her. My husband told me that when he was a very small child, he was fascinated with Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and he thought she was amazingly beautiful and he liked her. Later, he said, he couldn’t for the life of him remember what he thought was so attractive about her. He said she simply wasn’t the slightest bit attractive to him anymore, but he remembers that she was the prettiest thing ever when he was young and watching those movies. ---
**Author:** ![Chase\_Ransom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@Chase\_Ransom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chase_Ransom)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/8 "2009-02-20T05:45:22Z")
Ornella Mutti (pre-Flash Gordon) and Diane Lane (Streets of Fire). Marvelous. ---
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/9 "2009-02-20T06:02:02Z")
One more vote for Audrey Hepburn. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/10 "2009-02-20T06:07:42Z")
I’ll go with Francis Farmer. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/11 "2009-02-20T06:20:39Z")
Barbara Stanwyk. Ye gods, ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/12 "2009-02-20T06:25:39Z")
Rita Hayworth. There is a popular animated gif I’ve seen here and there and I watch it over and over every time. I don’t know what movie it’s from. She tosses her hair and turns toward the camera…holy shit that was a good-looking woman. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/13 "2009-02-20T10:02:26Z")
I think that’s her entrance in GILDA, made quite famous by its inclusion in THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, which you should run out and see. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/14 "2009-02-20T12:14:31Z")
Gregory Peck is my platonic ideal of manhood. Please note that’s platonic _idealism_, and not platonic love, because I would give my eyeteeth to be able to go back in time and do unspeakably sweet and filthy things to that man. 😃 He didn’t die until I was 22, but given that he was 55 when I was born, I think it’s close enough. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/15 "2009-02-20T12:22:16Z")
> [@Chase\_Ransom](#): > > Ornella Mutti (pre-Flash Gordon) and Diane Lane (Streets of Fire). > > Marvelous. Neither of these two fit the criteria of the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/16 "2009-02-20T12:53:53Z")
He died in my late teens, I beleive, but I had a total obsession for James Cagney in my teens. I blame Yankee Doodle Dandy. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Am\_The\_Lorax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19adc/32.png) [@I\_Am\_The\_Lorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Am_The_Lorax)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/17 "2009-02-20T13:48:53Z")
Elvis ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/18 "2009-02-20T13:50:26Z")
Every time I watch _Casablanca_ I marvel over how beautiful Ingrid Bergman was. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/19 "2009-02-20T13:53:10Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > He didn’t die until I was 22, but given that he was 55 when I was born, I think it’s close enough. Along these lines, I’ve still got a bit of a thing for Donna Reed circa “It’s a Wonderful Life”. The movie itself was 31 years old when I was born. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/20 "2009-02-20T13:58:20Z")
Oh, honey, Ronald Colman. Gary Cooper. And I’ll fight \*\*Shirley \*\*for Jimmy Cagney. James Mason. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673.md?page=2)