# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/41 "2009-02-21T05:25:46Z")
Veronica Lake. Yowza. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/42 "2009-02-21T05:57:16Z")
Gordon McRae – primarily for his yummy Curly in _Oklahoma_. That smile…those twinkling eyes…and above all, [that _voice_.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss1CXo8QMi8) Oh, mercy! Also John Payne, from _Miracle on 34th Street_. So charming! I must second Errol Flynn, too. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/43 "2009-02-21T06:39:08Z")
[John Barrymore,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barrymore) [Leslie Howard](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Howard_(actor)) and [Sergei Rachmaninoff.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Rachmaninoff) Strangely, all three died within about a year of each other, just a couple of years before I was born. And of course, Gary Cooper. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/44 "2009-02-21T07:04:47Z")
I listened to the song, “Jean Arthur” by Robbie Fulks and I had never heard of her. Then I saw “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” and she stole the show from Jimmy Stewart, IMO. She also won my heart and I understood what Mr. Fullks was singing about finally. ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/45 "2009-02-21T07:13:33Z")
Steve McQueen. Mrrowrr. > [@SaharaTea](#): > > Humphrey Bogart was sex on a stick. This too. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/46 "2009-02-21T16:02:07Z")
This is a nightmare! Now I have to fight Mrs. Cake for Doug Fairbanks! ---
**Author:** ![Doody\_Pants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@Doody\_Pants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doody_Pants)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/47 "2009-02-21T16:32:10Z")
Mine was Jim Morrison. He died more than 2 years before I was born, and I had a thing for him all through high school. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/48 "2009-02-21T16:46:17Z")
If you will allow _fascination_ or _addiction_ instead of _crush_ in this question, than I can mention the feelings I had for James Dean. He was nearly 10 years older than me and I first knew of his existence in 1956, after he had been dead since the previous September. I first saw him in _Rebel Without A Cause_ which was being shown second-run in a neighborhood theater after I had missed the first-run showing downtown. I had heard a rumor that he had been killed while making that movie, but didn’t pay the rumor much attention. I was at the opening of _Giant_ along with every kid in that part of the state and he got cheers when he first appeared on the screen. So I wasn’t alone in my worship of him. Even Elvis knew every line of his dialog and would quote it on cue. I practically worshipped Dean all the years I was a teenager and wanted to be an actor myself. I was an adult with kids of my own before the speculation about his sexual preferences began replacing the fanmags and books about him. As far as I can tell, I never had any sexual attraction to him, and haven’t toward any other man for that matter. But I damn sure had a fascination with his whole life and his career. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/49 "2009-02-21T18:21:41Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > Greta Garbo. I had to watch _Camille_ twice: once to moon over Garbo, once to figure out what was going on. Camille has a plot? I thought it was just an excuse to shoot Garbo doing whatever she felt like doing. And that’s not a criticism. If no one ever made such a movie, they SHOULD have. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/50 "2009-02-21T20:06:17Z")
Absolutely! I remember from an early age having crushes on Lana Turner, Betty Grable, and Susan Hayward. I guess the reason it didn’t seem abnormal was because it was much easier to see B&W movies and TV 25 years ago, so films made decades ago didn’t seem like they came from eons ago. Plus my family had tons of older books which made me able to appreciate older entertainment. I wonder if younger kids think the same way. My current crush is Greer Garson. She was a splendid actress who brought grace to anything she appeared in. She also had flaming red hair, mesmerizing eyes, and[an amazing body](http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/3312083.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=11B127B063386F61DB5661396AED14C9A55A1E4F32AD3138). This plus her an English accent so posh it sometimes sounds like a parody unintentionally gives her a “I’m so prim and proper I’m a tigress in the bedroom” vibe. ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/51 "2009-02-21T21:33:16Z")
> [@Hunter\_Hawk](#): > > Veronica Lake. Yowza. Ditto. Which is weird because blondes aren’t my thing at all, but there was something about her. ---
**Author:** ![ha1a1n0p0rk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/22d042/32.png) [@ha1a1n0p0rk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ha1a1n0p0rk)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/52 "2013-04-13T10:04:32Z")
I’d probably also go with Marilyn Monroe she died 40 years before I was born. And I didn’t really see the appeal until I read a page about her in a book about people who changed the world and still didn’t see the appeal until something weird happened all of a sudden I was pulled into the book and made sure my friends never saw it because I was afraid of embarrassment since people made fun of me and teased me and then I started imagining her like I’m talking to her in my head and feeling her presence which of course I know she isn’t there. Thats why I’m planning on building a time machine to meet her in the past and prevent her death but then it would cause a paradox and that would suck and I don’t want to stay in the past forever and will she even believe me if I said that I’m from the future and that I came in a time machine that I would soon invent? Would she even come with me? Maybe take her on the day she is supposed to die therefore not making a paradox and still taking her to what would be to her as the future I’m sure she wouldn’t want to stay. Maybe if I told myself in the past what to do and of course my time machine would still exist because I have been wanting to build a time machine long before I developed my crush. I am confused with my plans. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/53 "2013-04-13T11:12:23Z")
Hmm - celebrities whom you love who have been long dead, in a zombie thread - the dots we could connect here…😉 ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/54 "2013-04-13T14:07:52Z")
> [@ha1a1n0p0rk](#): > > I’d probably also go with Marilyn Monroe she died 40 years before I was born. And I didn’t really see the appeal until I read a page about her in a book about people who changed the world and still didn’t see the appeal until something weird happened all of a sudden I was pulled into the book and made sure my friends never saw it because I was afraid of embarrassment since people made fun of me and teased me and then I started imagining her like I’m talking to her in my head and feeling her presence which of course I know she isn’t there. Thats why I’m planning on building a time machine to meet her in the past and prevent her death but then it would cause a paradox and that would suck and I don’t want to stay in the past forever and will she even believe me if I said that I’m from the future and that I came in a time machine that I would soon invent? Would she even come with me? Maybe take her on the day she is supposed to die therefore not making a paradox and still taking her to what would be to her as the future I’m sure she wouldn’t want to stay. Maybe if I told myself in the past what to do and of course my time machine would still exist because I have been wanting to build a time machine long before I developed my crush. I am confused with my plans. Best first post by an 11-year-old EVER. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673/55 "2013-04-13T14:23:03Z")
Margaret Dumont. Sublime. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-crush-on-someone-famous/486673.md?page=2)