# Heart Throbs/Sex Symbols in their prime **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 11, 2021, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-throbs-sex-symbols-in-their-prime/948410 "2021-08-11T02:27:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-throbs-sex-symbols-in-their-prime/948410/21 "2021-08-11T23:08:13Z")
I had a huge crush on Natalie Wood, as she appeared in West Side Story: > **[Maria happily wears her altered dress in preparation for The Dance... |...](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/69102175516922900/)** > > Sep 1, 2022 - Download scientific diagram | Maria happily wears her altered dress in preparation for The Dance ("West Side Story (1961) Photo Gallery"). from publication: Culture Through Color Perception in "West Side Story" | My project is part of... ---
**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:** [August 11, 2021, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-throbs-sex-symbols-in-their-prime/948410/22 "2021-08-11T23:12:59Z")
My first celebrity crush: Lindsey Wagner. [![](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e1/53/6d/e1536d7923cee2571df5f809a51d6e85.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e1/53/6d/e1536d7923cee2571df5f809a51d6e85.jpg) My second celebrity crush: Olivia Newton-John. [![](https://www.teahub.io/photos/full/303-3031485_olivia-newton-john-olivia-newton-john-1970s.jpg) ](https://www.teahub.io/photos/full/303-3031485_olivia-newton-john-olivia-newton-john-1970s.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2021, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-throbs-sex-symbols-in-their-prime/948410/23 "2021-08-12T01:27:48Z")
Hedy Lamar is tough to beat. She was way before my time but now I marvel at just how beautiful she was. Smart as hell, too. Well worth doing some research! > **[Hedy Lamarr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > Hedy Lamarr (/ˈhɛdi/; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914\[a\] – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American film actress and inventor. A film star during Hollywood's golden age, Lamarr has been described as one of the greatest movie actresses of all time. > After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and... ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2021, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-throbs-sex-symbols-in-their-prime/948410/24 "2021-08-12T02:12:47Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Young Anne Francis: Google it. Google her! HER! Jeezus, I got spanked for Britain’s prettiest documentary hostesses and you can’t give the late Ms Francis her own species correctly? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2021, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-throbs-sex-symbols-in-their-prime/948410/25 "2021-08-12T11:21:26Z")
Too bad she never married Nelson Eddy. Then she’d be Hedy Eddy. I’ll show myself out… ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2021, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-throbs-sex-symbols-in-their-prime/948410/26 "2021-08-12T12:34:19Z")
If Tuesday Weld married Fredric March’s grandson, she’d be Tuesday March the Second. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2021, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-throbs-sex-symbols-in-their-prime/948410/27 "2021-08-12T15:17:21Z")
[![](https://www.instyle.com/thmb/gz5Yldtjs1HNBkbkcV3W_FVcp5w=/1200x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/gettyimages-3170647-2000-9bd8c658195d4b4eb2513996169f9428.jpg) ](https://www.instyle.com/thmb/gz5Yldtjs1HNBkbkcV3W_FVcp5w=/1200x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/gettyimages-3170647-2000-9bd8c658195d4b4eb2513996169f9428.jpg) Gregory Peck - One of my favorite guys from the Hollywood classics ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-throbs-sex-symbols-in-their-prime/948410/28 "2021-08-12T16:16:20Z")
Anne Francis would be a her (and how!), but I maintain that “young Ann Francis”, taken as a full phrase, would be an “it”. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2021, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-throbs-sex-symbols-in-their-prime/948410/29 "2021-08-13T02:02:37Z")
The first photo I saw of ONJ—quite different as a brunette. [![](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_(Olivia_Newton-John_album)#/media/File:Olivia_(Olivia_Newton-John_album_-_cover_art).jpg) ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_(Olivia_Newton-John_album)#/media/File:Olivia_(Olivia_Newton-John_album_-_cover_art).jpg) I’ll add: Rachel Ward [https://www.blu-ray.com/Rachel-Ward-I/69509/](https://www.blu-ray.com/Rachel-Ward-I/69509/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-throbs-sex-symbols-in-their-prime/948410.md?page=1)