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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:
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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?
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While I’m with you in pining for Quarters, Milano & Cates I don’t think they meet this board’s definition of obscure. Fanboys everywhere, myself included, already easily recognize them.
As for “obscure” crushes, there’s one from a movie I can’t even remember its title. Something about Fire or Paradise or the like and it involved some English type(s) on a Pacific island and with a native dancing girl who was too fine as the “love” interest. I think the English actor may have been Trevor Howard or Jack Hawkins and the movie had to be from the 50’s or 60’s, no more recent. But whoever that gal was had me all in a lather for weeks or months back then.
And even though she went on to bigger and better things, Sherilyn Fenn in Twin Peaks was my fixation in that one, and I was in my middle age by then.
There were a whole lot of secondary actresses in old TV series and movie B westerns that I thought were fine. Fay Spain comes to mind.
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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.
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I hope no one recognizes this show. I’ll be embarrassed if they do. There was a show on, I think, the ABC Family Channel, or FOX Family, or whatever the hell that channel used to called. This show was called Big Wolf on Campus. It was, predictably, about a teenage werewolf. I had a big crush on both the werewolf and his weird best friend.
[QUOTE=Sefton]
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.
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Don’t Pit me for listing a 14year old girl (14 at the time she was in the Film in question), for I myself was only 7years old at the time. I was madly in love with Rosanne Sorrentino who played the role of Pepper in the movie Annie (and have loved mean bossy girls ever since).
[QUOTE=Morbo]
By obscure, I mean let’s not discuss . . . Wilma Deering.
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Hey, hey…shy boy Hollywood crushes are not a stranger to me. Some of mine:
Kim Richards (originally seen by me in “Escape to Witch Mountain”, but I never saw her on “Facts of Life”, even though I watched it religiously…Julie Anne Haddock was my favorite on the first season (she also was in “The Great Santini”). Nancy McKeon was my favorite after that).
I also had the early hots for Kristy McNichol when she was on “Family.”
Also on TV shows (and here’s where I’m putting in my “obscure” vote): Ann Holloway and Natasha Pyne, who starred in the late '60s British comedy, “Father Dear Father.” I was a prepubescent back then, but my older brother’s interest in them tended to focus mine.
Then there was Nadia Comaneci during the 1976 Olympics, when I did hit puberty…
Otherwise, Jodie Foster as Becky Thatcher in the Walt Disney musical version of “Tom Sawyer” (with Johnny Whitaker from “Family Affair”…I used to think that the Chief from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” played Injun Joe in this–Will Sampson–but IMDB says it was a guy named Kunu Hank). I saw this in the theater when I was a kid, and have been a Ms. Foster fan ever since.
I also fell in love with Brooke Shields from the People magazine cover that came out after she did “Pretty Baby.” I’m still not over that one.
I’m with you, Dijon, in sharing the Jodie love. I was obsessed with her as Becky Thatcher also, as well, as her role in The Little Girl Who Lived Down The Lane and her guest appearances as Eddie’s friend Joey on Courtship of Eddie’s Father.
That’s my one childhood crush that has evolved into an adult crush.
[QUOTE=zamboniracer]
While I’m with you in pining for Quarters, Milano & Cates I don’t think they meet this board’s definition of obscure. Fanboys everywhere, myself included, already easily recognize them.
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I agree with Cates. I’ve never seen whatever movie that was, but I’ve seen that scene, in various forms, dozens of times.
I’m going to go with Christina Ricci. No, that’s not obscure these days, but I liked her as Wednesday Addams.
I had a crush on Marcia Brady (Maureen McCormick) – I think most of the guys about my age had a crush on her!
A bit more obscure – does any one remember the detective show “Get Christie Love!” from the 1974-75 TV season? I had a major crush on the star, the gorgeous Teresa Graves!
Also – Lynda Day George from “Mission Impossible”!
One of my earliest movie crushes was Linda Harrison from the original Planet of the Apes. I was probably 8 or 9 years old the first time I saw it.
Then there was Olivia Hussey from the 1968 Romeo & Juliet which I saw on an edited for TV release.
Both these women were probably old enough to be my mother, but they were preserved in their peak of youth & beauty by celluloid.
I also had crushes on Kristy McNichol from a TV series (8 is enough?) in the late 70’s, Pamela Hensley who played Princess Ardala (the bad girl) in the Buck Rogers TV series, and finally Phoebe Kates (I’ve always thought you were cute, Brad).
Maureen O’Sullivan, from the first six Johnny Weismuller Tarzan movies. My word, she was lovely back in the day. Also Phyllis Coates, the first Lois Lane from the '50s Superman series. That Kal-El was not instantly in love with her proves that he really isn’t even a little bit human.
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I had a crush on Marcia Brady (Maureen McCormick) – I think most of the guys about my age had a crush on her!
A bit more obscure – does any one remember the detective show “Get Christie Love!” from the 1974-75 TV season? I had a major crush on the star, the gorgeous Teresa Graves!
Also – Lynda Day George from “Mission Impossible”!
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I can’t believe I forgot Phyllis Coates – my memories of her are from “Panther Girl of the Kongo”/“Claw Monsters” instead of Superman, though!
Also – Jo Ann Harris, Pamela Hensley, and Deborah Shelton!
[QUOTE=Neidhart]
Tracey Gold before she got all anorexic.
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I came here to post that!
And Agent 99 from Get Smart, and Ginger from Gilligan’s Island. When I was very young I used to think they were same person for some reason. I’m a Mary Ann guy now though.
And Emma Samms from General Hospital, what can I say, my grandmother and aunts had it on during the summer and I watched some.
[QUOTE=The Chao Goes Mu]
I’m with you, Dijon, in sharing the Jodie love. I was obsessed with her as Becky Thatcher also, as well, as her role in The Little Girl Who Lived Down The Lane and her guest appearances as Eddie’s friend Joey on Courtship of Eddie’s Father.
That’s my one childhood crush that has evolved into an adult crush.
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Me three, but you forgot her role on The Partridge Family.
In fact, I opened this thread just to mention Susan Dey.
That show was a real start for a lot of actors who were not yet famous. Mark Hamill, Farah Fawcett, Bert Convy, Pat Harrington, and Richard Mulligan, to name a few.
