Boomers: who was your first celebrity crush as a kid? (55, single)

[Clemencia53]

Telli Savalas!

[pathrunner]

Everyone who has responded so far - these are all so interesting! And understandable

[arr430]

In those days, our crushes were on the radio. Dana Wynter rings a bell, from a pic in my sister's Photoplay Magazine.

[jtab4994]

Judy Robinson from Lost in Space (Marta Kristen).

Saw her recently in an old Alfred Hitchcock Presents, with Billy Mumy as a kid who finds a real gun he thinks is a cap pistol. Marta was a worker at a supermarket, and even more gorgeous than she was as Judy. Too bad she wasn't a bigger star!

[thrillobyte]

Colleen Corby.


BTW, this is a clever means to sniff out the gender of the member.

[normstad]

Diana Rigg of The Avengers

[pathrunner]

Originally Posted by thrillobyte

Colleen Corby.


BTW, this is a clever means to sniff out the gender of the member.

Didn't think of that but you're correct!

[tasmtairy]

Edd Byrnes~~ 77 Sunset Strip, lol then Dr. Kildare.

[trobesmom]

Bobby Sherman. *swoon*

[Bungalove]

Originally Posted by 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.

I watched classic films as well, so my first movie crush was Paul Henried in "The Spanish Main". Oh, that waving blonde hair and those blue eyes in glorious Technicolor! He stayed at the top of my list for years.