By obscure, I mean let’s not discuss Princess Leia in her Jabba bikini, or Wilma Deering. I’m interested in more obscure crushes that you still recall with fondness.
Some of my examples:
The girl who pretended to be a boy to avoid the Lottery in Dragonslayer.
Hillary Flammond from Top Secret. “It means those whose busoms defy gravity.”
Jennifer Connelly in Labrynth. Then later in life she got dildoed in the ass in **Requiem For A Dream[b/]. Ah well - we both grew up.
Bailey Quarters. If you’ve read this far then you obviously know these aren’t in order, since she would be #1.
Phoebe Cates. If you know what I mean, you’ve already got “Moving In Stereo” in your head.
I’m curious to see examples from folks who’s formative years are from different decades. Does anyone pine for Susan Dey? Thomas Magnum? Alyssa Milano? Hasselhoff?
When I read this thread title, I remembered an old Lucky Book Club paperback one of my older sisters had, about the TV stars of some long past season. In the middle were the black and white glossy pictures, of course. One of them was captioned, “Go ahead, get excited! It’s Jan-Michael Vincent!”
I wasn’t much for obscure tv crushes, but Felicity Kendall always made me a little funny in the pants.
Randolph Mantooth in “Emergency!”
Bobby Sherman in “Here Come the Brides”
James Stacy & Wayne Maunder in “Lancer”
Chad Everett
Wesley Eure
Michael Gray (“Shazam!” & “The Brian Keith Show”)
Jan Michael Vincent (circa “The World’s Greatest Athlete”)
Merely to show how long I can remember a crush on a celebrity, I’ll toss in Hedy Lamarr from Samson and Delilah. I was a teenager before other women took away Hedy’s exotic beauty from the top of my list of fixations. I suppose the next one to do so would have to have been Sophia Loren or Kim Novak.
Even though you asked for movie and TV, I want to mention the earliest “out of reach” crush I had. It was the comic strip character in the Kerry Drake strip known as Champagne. For a prepubescent kid she was the ultimate stone fox. I have never been able to find any of those old strips so I could refresh my memory of her, but I did bring her name up in an old thread and had several Dopers give me suggestions on how to locate her picture. None have worked so far.
Nancy McKeon (outside of her obvious role as Jo in *Facts Of Life * ) I was obsessed with her in the 1987 made for TV movie Strange Voices.
Kim Richards- Escape To Witch Mountain * and her appearances on Facts Of Life*
Lara Jill Miller-“Sam” on Gimme A Break
Natalie Wood- Now one would assume I would’ve crushed on her in one of her more steamy roles on screen, but no, I was smitten to the point of being wrecked when she starred with Christoper Walken and Louise Fletcher in Brainstorm.
I got an obscure one for you. There was a British series called Into the Labyrinth, and the evil witch was played by a woman named Pamela Salem. Stunningly gorgeous.
Oh, and Bonnie from Knight Rider! Here’s an interview in case anyone else misses her.
You know, I presume, that Jo was embraced by young lesbians as One Of The Family, presumably because of her butch name, coarse bellowing voice and intimidating glare.
