Gotta go with Marilyn Monroe. I never really understood the appeal until I watched Some Like It Hot. But whooooo doggie was she hot.
I had a serious crush on Marvin Gaye for years.
I always thought that that JFK, Jr. and I would at least date at some point. I was only a few years older and I started crushing during my teen years.
They weren’t dead at the time but waaaay older than me.
When I was a child in the 70s I had huge crushes on Shirley Temple and Darla Hood (Little Rascals). Too bad Temple was in her 50s at the time and Hood in her 40s.
When I was a teen in the 80s I saw Singin In The Rain and fell in love with Debbie Reynolds. Hotty 20 year old Debbie Reynolds, not 56 year-old Debbie Reynolds.
I sincerely hope this is in-bounds for this thread’s premise.
If famous can include a character from a comic strip syndicated in national newspapers, and if crush can include whatever emotions run through a pre-school kid, then I have one to share.
The old Kerry Drake strip (we’re talking late 1940’s here) had a character named Champagne who was your basic stone fox – or at least that’s the way she was in my memory. I still crave her body.
I have tried unsuccessfully to find a website where nostalgia and memorabilia are discussed and bartered, but so far nothing to resemble the gal of my boyhood dreams.
NoClueBoy (sp?) tried providing a link once before when a similar topic was being discussed, but it wasn’t the right one.
Think about Roger Rabbit and the Kim Basinger-looking toon there, and you have the beginnings of what Champagne was like.
Does anybody else remember her?
Humphrey Bogart was sex on a stick.
I wasn’t even aware of Jeremy Brett’s existence until thirteen years after he died. I’ve been watching him in the Sherlock Holmes series and ay caramba, did that man have a masterful presence. I’m a sucker for a melodic, classically trained voice, and his was surely one of the best.
Guys in period costumes also do it for me, so he was double jeopardy. Yeh, I’m right in the middle of serious crush mode. Too bad about that death thing and all.
Orson Welles. I saw Citizen Kane in my early teens and had a serious boner for him. Still do, as long as I can block out what became of him.
Rita Hayworth. From the other crush thread.
What you said.
When they get that time machine built, I will go back and propose marriage to Danny Kaye. sigh
Audrey Hepburn.
Ingrid Bergman. My god, was she smokin’ hot.
I had a HUGE crush on Bob Crane (Col. Hogan) as a kid. I was devastated when he was murdered. I think I was about 11 when he died.
…and I will mean serious trouble for either Deirdre O’Connell or Madeleine Seiler. After all, both of them - and maybe or maybe not some chorus girl from the '73 Irish production of JCS- were only inadequate substitutes for a time-travelling Amber in Treasury.
I might seriously consider murder, if getting Errol Flynn to flirt at me was a possibility. Ohh that smile.
Marlene Dietrich has always facinated me. I’m not sure if I want to BE here, or if I just find her darn sexy.
Natalie Wood. Even though she seemed to change in appearance from one age to the next, she was always a babe.
I felt bad when she died, knowing that I’d never win her heart. OTOH I was able to tell the tasteless joke that went around. Gallows humor, whistling past the graveyard, something like that I guess.
Did you hear about the nightmare vacation with celebrities?
Fly to your destination with Buddy Holly.
Princess Grace picks you up at the airport.
You have lunch with Karen Carpenter.
You go swimming with Natalie Wood.
Then you watch home movies with Bob Crane.
etc.
At this time Shirley (Temple) Black still isn’t dead - she turns 81 this year.
I’ll agree with both of these, and add Myrna Loy.
Where to start? There’s a long. long list of them who were either dead or quite elderly before I ever knew they existed.
Top Five, in no particular order, and the film that first introduced them to my hormones:
Basil Rathbone - Captain Blood
Claude Rains - Notorious or Casablanca, can’t recall which one was first
Peter Lorre - The Maltese Falcon
Cary Grant - Holiday
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr - The Prisoner of Zenda
I suggest the “Pictures of Lily” condition, after the Who song about this very thing: