Boomers: who was your first celebrity crush as a kid? (married, husband)

[TamaraSavannah]

Originally Posted by leadfoot4

Actress Anne Francis.....she played the female private investigator, on the TV show 'Honey West'.

It was the Ocelot that gave it away.


I saw the show overseas as a child but years later, didn't know what it was called. I was describing it to a friend of my Mom's and the Ocelot, Bruce but I didn't know the name then, led her right to it.


AS IT IS........have that show in the library, too!

[FrannyBear]

Oh gosh -- mine was Robert Culp -- he was in my favorite show I SPY and I just loved him.

[in_newengland]

As a very young child it was Howdy Doody. I actually thought he was real.

Much later, Johnny Horton (singer). After he died, Pernell Roberts who played Adam Cartwright on Bonanza.

[nandorrei]

Michael Landon was my first (as a preteen).
then - Robert Urich, Gregory Harrison, Jonathan Frakes.

now - Ryan Gosling.

[2 Scoops]

Gen. X sneaking in to play!

Watching reruns as a kid, liked Pete from The Mod Squad and The Monkees!

[pathrunner]

Originally Posted by in_newengland

As a very young child it was Howdy Doody. I actually thought he was real.

Much later, Johnny Horton (singer). After he died, Pernell Roberts who played Adam Cartwright on Bonanza.

Aw, that is so sweet I loved Howdy Doody too.

And yes, Pernell Roberts.... swoon.

[lpc123]

Susan Dey (The Partridge Family)
Dawn Wells (Gilligan's Island)
Danica McKellar (Wonder Years)
Valerie Bertinelli (One Day at a Time)

[sera]

Singer - Elvis (First television appearance, Ed Sullivan Show, 1956)

The Righteous Brothers

Ray Charles (Masonic Auditorium, San Francisco, 1963. The auditorium
Rocked as Brother Ray sang What I'd Say)

Doo Wop, The Five Satins, The Platters

Actor - James Dean (Rebel Without A Cause, Giant)

TV Star - Edd Byrne's (77 Sunset Strip)

Movie Star - Clark Gable

Rock 'N Roll, was a big part of the 1950's as was Doo Wop. Remember American Bandstand, Dick Clark; Dance Party was on a local station in San Francisco. KEWB, was the local radio station in Oakland for Rock 'N Roll.

[Parnassia]

As kids we really didn't watch much TV so many of the heartthrobs my little friends swooned over didn't mean anything to me. I wasn't a huge movie goer either and grew up with more classical music, not the R&R of the day. One doesn't really have romantic crushes on Andres Segovia or silver-haired orchestra conductors like Leonard Bernstein. The lanky, blonde, blue-eyed track star down the street however...

My parents tended to watch and take us to classic B&W films so I do remember liking a few of those actors: Gregory Peck, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Ronald Colman (or maybe their characters...not sure when I started making the distinction), but I also knew most of them were already dead and beyond reality. I was more likely to moon after a book character TBH. Unless the book was illustrated, you could create an image of them to suit yourself.

[Thulsa]

This scene has stuck with me.
I wasn't quite old enough to know exactly what was happening, but I knew I wanted to be that guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvqoO8Zj9GU