# What were your parent's crushes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 6, 2015, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384 "2015-07-06T06:20:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/21 "2015-07-06T15:31:12Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > I figured that one out because we stopped watching after Diana Rigg left the show. > > … The show also turned to crap after Diana Rigg left. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/22 "2015-07-06T17:09:04Z")
I can’t ever remember my mother talking about a crush, but my dad loved his redheads and Rita Hayworth and Maureen O’Hara were his favs. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/23 "2015-07-06T17:22:09Z")
My mom was in to Mark Spitz. No idea who my dad was in to. My mom, I guess 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Andiethewestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@Andiethewestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andiethewestie)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/24 "2015-07-06T17:26:06Z")
Mom liked Cornel Wilde and Clark Gable, Dad liked Marilyn Monroe Julie Christie and Jill St John. ---
**Author:** ![CalBak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/258eb7/32.png) [@CalBak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalBak)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/25 "2015-07-06T17:27:39Z")
Grandma: Neil Diamond. Dad: I remember him saying Jamie Lee Curtis was pretty once or twice. Mom: Mel Gibson, not sure if that’s still true now that everybody knows he’s an anti-Semite. Me and my siblings would kind of mock her and refer to him as “Mel-baby”. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/26 "2015-07-06T17:28:56Z")
My mother had a crush on Johnny Mathis. I’m assuming that my father had celebrity crushes, but he’s never mentioned them. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/27 "2015-07-06T17:48:43Z")
As per my dad, mom crushed hard on Tony from West Side Story. Dad still loves Chaka Khan and Diahann Carroll. His (not so) secret stash of porn heavily featured Vanessa Del Rio. ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/28 "2015-07-06T18:01:34Z")
Pops had a crush on Mary Tyler Moore. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/29 "2015-07-06T18:05:07Z")
My mother had a thing for Paul McCartney. (My mom was an adolescent/teenager during the 60s.) ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/30 "2015-07-06T18:16:08Z")
I’m having a hard time even wrapping my finger around this question. I can’t remember my parents having crushes in the sense that this thread is talking about. My dad used to sing Mozart arias when I was a kid, that’s the closest I can come. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/31 "2015-07-06T18:28:46Z")
My mom had a crush on Dan Haggerty of “Grizzly Adams” fame. I don’t know who my dad had a crush on. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/32 "2015-07-06T18:49:10Z")
Dad: Bridgette Bardot and Teresa Brewer. Mom: Cary Grant and Burt Reynolds. ---
**Author:** ![journeyman\_southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/33 "2015-07-06T18:52:26Z")
For mum it was basically the mainstays of the cover of Tiger Beat circa 1971 (Donny Osmond, David Cassidy, etc.) No idea on dad. ---
**Author:** ![TheInimitableMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TheInimitableMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInimitableMaven)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/34 "2015-07-06T19:07:37Z")
My maternal grandmother: Clark Gable. She even had a picture of him (a present my mom got her at a Disney World Disney(-formerly MGM) Studios gift shop) on her vanity mirror. My mom: Robert Redford and Chad Everett. She went through a period of having to see almost every Redford flick with her best friend (her favorites from then and to this day being _Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid_ and _The Sting_, and like mother like daughter, my favorites of Redford’s (and Newman’s too) as well). Also had a time where _Medical Center_ was far and away her ‘must see TV’ above most everything else. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/35 "2015-07-06T19:11:21Z")
Mom loved **David Lee Roth** (of Van Halen) and **Dwight Schultz** (Murdock from the A-Team). Dad loved **Stephanie Zimbalist** (of Remington Steele). ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/36 "2015-07-06T19:13:29Z")
My mother (who was 33 and married with children when it came out) went to see South Pacific four times, something she never did with other movies. She would not say whether it was Rossano Brazzi or John Kerr who was fluttering her petticoat, but I suspect the latter\*. My father was too good at keeping secrets for us kids to guess whether he had crushes or not. eta: \*Or I could be projecting - when I saw this movie later, John Kerr was the one I was interested in. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/37 "2015-07-06T19:44:19Z")
My mom loved William Holden. My dad loved Barbara Stanwyck. ---
**Author:** ![Abracadebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@Abracadebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abracadebra)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/38 "2015-07-06T20:11:32Z")
Mom: Steve McQueen Dad: Gina Lollabrigida ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/39 "2015-07-06T20:20:07Z")
My mom, who is in here 80s now, used to watch The Man from U.N.C.L.E. back in the early 60s, partly because of her crush on David McCallum. She was delighted to rediscover him on NCIS. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/40 "2015-07-06T20:39:19Z")
My mom ached for Tyrone Power. When I was a little older, I noticed the resemblance between Tyrone Power and my dad. At least around the eyes and eyebrows - both of them had big expressive black eyebrows. :[Googling up an image](http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/201201/25/38/e0040938_20322518.jpg): Hey, I agree with my mom! My dad - no one that he ever mentioned to us kids. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384.md?page=3)