# Obscure Movie / TV crushes from your youth **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 5, 2007, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579 "2007-07-05T10:46:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/1 "2007-07-05T10:46:41Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/2 "2007-07-05T11:03:25Z")
Justine Bateman! Tracey Gold before she got all anorexic. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/3 "2007-07-05T12:31:18Z")
You want obscure? I’ll give you obscure – Noel Harrison from _The Girl from U.N.C.L.E._ Beat that. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/4 "2007-07-05T12:34:55Z")
Kevin O’Reilly from the original Star Trek. _I’ll take you home again Kathleen_ ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/5 "2007-07-05T12:50:38Z")
Diana Rigg, Mrs. Peel from **The Avengers**! Or, how’s this for obscure…Anne Francis from **Honey West** ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/6 "2007-07-05T13:20:37Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/7 "2007-07-05T13:33:15Z")
Speed Racer. :smack: :smack: :smack: Now, _that’s_ embarrassing. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/8 "2007-07-05T13:39:24Z")
Patricia Neal from _In Harm’s Way,_ and _The Day the Earth Stood Still._ ---
**Author:** ![Shryn\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Shryn\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shryn_King)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/9 "2007-07-05T13:45:26Z")
Robby Benson in [Ice Castles](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0077716/) ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/10 "2007-07-05T13:56:49Z")
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”) (slinking away in mid-60s embarrassment) VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/11 "2007-07-05T13:58:34Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jeffr062](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@Jeffr062](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeffr062)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/12 "2007-07-05T14:00:21Z")
[QUOTE=Neidhart] Justine Bateman! Tracey Gold before she got all anorexic. [/QUOTE] I second Ms Bateman ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/13 "2007-07-05T14:06:13Z")
I _sloppy_ second Ms. Bateman. 😛 Also Nurse Ripples from _Trapper John_, Carol from _Bob Newhart_, and Marilyn Hassett, any time, anyway, anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/14 "2007-07-05T14:07:45Z")
Theora Jones from the short-lived _Max Headroom_ series. **boi-oi-oi-oinnnnggg** ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/15 "2007-07-05T14:12:55Z")
Amanda Pays from _The Flash_ and _Max Headroom_. Imogen Stubbs from _Erik the Viking_ Caroline Munro from _Starcrash_ ETA: I see **OneCentStamp** had the same idea, and answered while I was still composing. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/16 "2007-07-05T14:13:02Z")
Chris Makepeace in _My Bodyguard_ 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_. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/17 "2007-07-05T14:15:04Z")
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](http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/poitier/1005/id51.htm) in case anyone else misses her. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/18 "2007-07-05T14:27:56Z")
Heh. I had the hots for Punky Brewster and Penny (Janet Jackson) on _Goodtimes_. ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/19 "2007-07-05T14:32:43Z")
[QUOTE=The Chao Goes Mu] 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_. [/QUOTE] Thankfully it wasn’t _Miracle on 34th Street_. 🙂 I too enjoyed her in _Brainstorm_. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/20 "2007-07-05T14:34:31Z")
[QUOTE=The Chao Goes Mu] Nancy McKeon (outside of her obvious role as Jo in \*Facts Of Life \* ) [/QUOTE] 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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579.md?page=2)