# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/61 "2015-07-09T20:56:18Z")
My Pop had such a thing for Myrna Loy. (And…so do I! I want a girl just like the girl who was lusted on by dear old dad!) ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/62 "2015-07-09T21:02:10Z")
My dad had to think for a bit, but he came up with [Kim Novak](http://www.meredy.com/meredysplacewallpaper/wpnovak01.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/63 "2015-07-09T21:12:34Z")
My mom’s crush when she was a teen was Warren Beatty. Dad never had one particular crush while growing up. He did like Linda Carter in the 70’s and Catherine Zeta Jones a decade ago. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/64 "2015-07-09T21:49:44Z")
Mom–Leonard Nimoy. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/65 "2015-07-09T22:03:19Z")
My mom had a thing for Christopher Plummer in The Sound of Music. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b782af/32.png) [@Why\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_Child)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/66 "2015-07-10T06:06:18Z")
In the 70s, my mother had crushes on Robert Goulet, Omar Sharif, and Richard Chamberlain. (This thread made me curious, so I googled images of them, and I agree, very attractive men.) Sometime between 2005 - 2008, she told me, “Keanu Reeves is a _very_ handsome man, and _that Johnny Depp is just hot!_” I don’t remember anyone for my father. ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/67 "2015-07-10T06:14:02Z")
No idea about my late dad, though he seemed like a Farrah Fawcett kind of guy. My mom, on the other hand…she had the biggest crush on George Michael forever. I tried to tell her, but she wouldn’t listen to me. 😛 Later on she had a thing for Mel Gibson. I think she mentioned having a thing for Kacey (of the Sunshine Band) when she was younger, and Travolta (who my dad looked a lot like). My grandparents liked Sophia Loren, John Wayne, and Jerry Orbach, to name a few. I don’t know how much those would be considered crushes. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/68 "2015-07-10T06:53:01Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Ladies, Robert Urich fans? That wouldn’t be my mom… ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/69 "2015-07-10T13:43:07Z")
I wasn’t going to post, because my parents’ crushes were Indian, but I thought you guys might like to see some of the goodlooking guys and gals of yesteryear anyway. My mom was born in 44 and my dad in 42, so they came of age in the sixties. Mom’s crushes: [Shammi Kapoor, he of the golden eyes and extremely light skin](https://www.google.com/search?q=shammi+kapoor&safe=active&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=osmfVZ-OAsnv-QGl75b4BA&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1600&bih=733#imgrc=c-8OlLgGW-qflM%3A) [Dilip Kumar](https://www.google.com/search?q=dharmendra&safe=active&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ysmfVcGFMYzy-AGBvZC4BQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAg&biw=1600&bih=733#safe=active&tbm=isch&q=dilip+kumar&imgrc=SrCTd-Tk2jLmEM%3A) [Dharmendra](https://www.google.com/search?q=dharmendra&safe=active&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ysmfVcGFMYzy-AGBvZC4BQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAg&biw=1600&bih=733#safe=active&tbm=isch&q=dharmendra+young&imgrc=jvTrJk2BUtF7gM%3A) Dad’s crushes: [Asha Parekh, who had the doe-eyed look down pat](https://www.google.com/search?q=asha+parekh&safe=active&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=JcqfVeWHBMXp-AHp_byIBQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1600&bih=733#imgrc=OaK0bMM62raVQM%3A) [Sharmila Tagore](https://www.google.com/search?q=sharmila+tagore&safe=active&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=S8qfVf_5JsPs-AGay4CIBQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1600&bih=733#safe=active&tbm=isch&q=sharmila+tagore+young&imgrc=rJazf_en95Me3M%3A) [Helen, who did cabaret! And wore skimpy clothing!](https://www.google.com/search?q=helen+jairag+richardson&safe=active&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&biw=1600&bih=733&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=wsqfVcmDBIyt-AG5u7uIBQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#imgrc=o-YkJ8NNQs8HQM%3A) While I am here, I also must link to the beauty queen [Madhubala](https://www.google.com/search?q=madhubala&safe=active&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=lMmfVbzaGcWy-AGO8YDIBQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1600&bih=733#safe=active&tbm=isch&q=madhubala+beauty&imgrc=DHYYo3WDlVf1AM%3A), who tragically died far too young, at only age 36. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/70 "2015-07-10T14:18:37Z")
Mom: Tom Selleck, Alex Trebek (mustachioed) and George was her favorite Beatle Dad: Catherine Zeta Jones, Jennifer Grey (as Baby) I think my paternal grandmother, an old (even when she was young) South Dakota dirt farmer’s wife, really liked Lawrence Welk. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/71 "2015-07-14T02:03:44Z")
Mom and Dad were so freaking terrified of sex that they never mentioned any celebrity crushes. Dad’s Mom, however, was hot for Clark Gable; like several other moms and grandmas here. Trinopus: Myrna Loy is an excellent choice. Did you know she modeled for a “perfect female form” statue in front of Venice High School BEFORE she became a movie star? > **[Myrna Loy statue](https://www.seeing-stars.com/Immortalized/MyrnaLoy.shtml)** > > A look at a statue outside of Venice High School, modeled by a young Myrna Loy. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/72 "2015-07-14T12:50:01Z")
I just asked my mom, she says she loved **Rock Hudson** , of course the general public didn’t know he was gay then. Also, **Robert Redford** **Kevin Costner** **Don Johnson** **James Dean** **Ryan O’Neal** ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/73 "2015-07-14T14:24:05Z")
My dad, as a young teenager, liked Jean Harlow. My mom liked one of the 50s TV Cowboys, maybe Clint Eastwood or maybe Clint Walker. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/74 "2015-07-14T14:27:18Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > When my mom was a teenager, she thought Elvis was the bee’s knees. Mine, too. She played guitar, and used to drive my grandparents nuts by playing Elvis. > [@Honey](#): > > Also, > **Robert Redford** I have a photo of my father looking a lot like Robert Redford ([here](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/3e/c3/4e/3ec34eed7ab78b9185a4270b1c2f4cbd.jpg)and [here](http://www.dobriiden.ru/sites/dobriiden.ru/files/snaps_of_famous_stars_in_the_1970s_9.jpg)). Same gorgeous blonde hair, and the only time my dad had his hair “long” (i.e., not a military-approved haircut). ---
**Author:** ![NPham2005](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@NPham2005](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NPham2005)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384/75 "2015-07-16T07:20:38Z")
My mom had a crush on Tom Netherton. Still does, actually. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-parents-crushes/724384.md?page=3)