Your teen heart throb?

[Buttercup]

Tinaa wrote in a different thread: I found Donny Osmond and he was my teen heart throb

Mine was Shaun Cassidy. :) (Looking back now I'm not sure why :confused:) I was glued to every episode of The Hardy Boys. :p

My other great heart throb was Alan Longmuir, bassist of The Bay City Rollers. I checked an online pic from 1976 last year; yep, still handsome even to this older eye. ;)

[closetgeek]

Heart throbs came and went with the trend. Sean Astin, Cory Feldman, Chad Allen, it all depended on who was over-exposed (publicity-wise, of course) for the moment. My heart forever and truly belonged to Jan Michael Vincent.

[Buttercup]

Jan Michael Vincent! Yeah, he was good looking. :)

My "forever and truly" is William Shatner. Even if he's old enough to be my father. :p

[closetgeek]

Jan Michael Vincent! Yeah, he was good looking. :)

My "forever and truly" is William Shatner. Even if he's old enough to be my father. :p

My father actually resembled and carried himself far too close to Shatner for me to look at him as anything more than a father figure type.

[Ampatent]

Considering I'm still a teen, Jessica Alba... Although, does it count if she is the same age as me? (Miley Cyrus)

[Fazor]

Well, I'm not sure I've ever heard the term "heart throb" used to describe a "crush" on a woman, but I don't know that I had a particular one anyway. Maybe Jennifer Aniston in my later teen years. There's tons of people, famous or not, who I've found attractive over the years. Just none that I'd go completely crazy over (except my current g/f, of course. ((just in case she finds this thread :whistle:)) ).

[captain swoop]

Kate Bush, and still is.
I met her once when she was doing some studio work, I was setting up the desk.

Talk about star struck!

[Argos]

Rita Hayworth, believe it or not. In my teens [70´s] her films were still frequently aired.

[Nick Theodorakis]

When I was a teen, it was for a brown-haired, brown-eyed girl with freckles who sat behind me in English class. Right now I have a little thing going for Zooey Deschanel.

Nick

[megrfl]

Mine was Shaun Cassidy. :) (Looking back now I'm not sure why :confused:) I was glued to every episode of The Hardy Boys. :p

As soon as I read the title of this thread, I thought of Shaun Cassidy. I had a subscription to Tiger Beat, I remember the excitement of receiving an issue with Shaun on the cover. :)

[Buttercup]

As soon as I read the title of this thread, I thought of Shaun Cassidy. I had a subscription to Tiger Beat, I remember the excitement of receiving an issue with Shaun on the cover. :)

Oh yeah! I was a Tiger Beat subscriber. Shaun was, I think, on every cover (predominantly) all of 1977.

[jrkeller]

Marie Osmond

Cheryl Ladd - Charlies Angels

Nancy Wilson of Heart


My real heart throb was my high school homecoming queen. Beautiful, smart, athletic and just a super nice girl.

[thoth II]

Racquel Welch

[Gillianren]

Oh, man, Tiger Beat. Too silly for my tastes. I mean, Seventeen was still silly, but at least their covers weren't so . . . eye-gouging. And unlike YM, they hired copy editors.

The funny thing is that, at my age, it could well have been Johnny Depp. It wasn't; to this day, I haven't seen an episode of 21 Jump Street. I was fond of Cry-Baby, though, and that kind of got me started. However, it amuses me that he's been a teen idol for twenty years now.

But for me, it was all about Christian Slater. Charlie Sheen, somewhat. (My best friend? Emilio Estevez.) When I was in fourth grade, Nickelodeon replayed The Monkees, and we all debated about who the best was. For me then, Davy Jones. (My older sister preferred Michael Nesmith, and I have come to her side, given his actual musical talent. And the hat, of course.) I was of an age for a lot of phenomena that I never got into, though--I knew that I wasn't really the same as a friend anymore when she was drooling over New Kids posters.

And, Argos, if admiring Rita Hayworth is wrong, I don't want to be right! How about mmmm, Cary Grant?

[geonuc]

Sally Field, especially as the Flying Nun.

Sigh.

[Fazor]

Sally Field, especially as the Flying Nun.
Sigh.

Not a bad choice. I mean, even now she's still very pretty. I always forget how attractive Marisa Tomei is until I see a run of 'My Cousin Vinny' or the episode of 'Seinfield' she was in.

[Argos]

And, Argos, if admiring Rita Hayworth is wrong, I don't want to be right! How about mmmm, Cary Grant?

Cary Grant, that´s what I call style!

About Rita, well, some people don´t get it when I talk about my teenager admiration for her in some circles down here. They look at me as if I were an ET.

[antoniseb]

Strictly speaking I didn't have one. The closest to matching the category were Hayley Mills, Annette Funicello, and maybe Angela Cartwright, though she was a bit young.

[R.A.F.]

Strictly speaking I didn't have one. The closest to matching the category were Hayley Mills, Annette Funicello, and maybe Angela Cartwright, though she was a bit young.

Wow!! Talk about "showing your age". :)

I had a real bad pre-teen crush on Patty Duke. (Guess I'm showing my age, too. :lol:)

[Tinaa]

The funny thing is that, at my age, it could well have been Johnny Depp. It wasn't; to this day, I haven't seen an episode of 21 Jump Street. I was fond of Cry-Baby, though, and that kind of got me started. However, it amuses me that he's been a teen idol for twenty years now.

But for me, it was all about Christian Slater. Charlie Sheen, somewhat. (My best friend? Emilio Estevez.) When I was in fourth grade, Nickelodeon replayed The Monkees, and we all debated about who the best was. For me then, Davy Jones. (My older sister preferred Michael Nesmith, and I have come to her side, given his actual musical talent. And the hat, of course.) I was of an age for a lot of phenomena that I never got into, though--I knew that I wasn't really the same as a friend anymore when she was drooling over New Kids posters.

And, Argos, if admiring Rita Hayworth is wrong, I don't want to be right! How about mmmm, Cary Grant?

I liked Mike too - especially the hat. Everyone else was mooning over Davy but I thought he was a bit wimpy. I thought Burt Reynolds was pretty hot in his time. Remember I am of the class of '81.

[SeanF]

I had kind of a little crush on Kristy McNichol back in the 70s.

I always forget how attractive Marisa Tomei is until I see a run of 'My Cousin Vinny' or the episode of 'Seinfield' she was in.
Agreed. Even the TV ads for Vinny - there was a shot of her sitting in the courtroom in that blue dress, with that dazzling smile....

And I have to say - I never noticed it when younger, but I have recently come to realize that Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins was H - O - T hot. :shifty:

[pumpkinpie]

Mine was a baseball player--the Detroit Tigers' Travis Fryman.

I called him my "future husband." In college, my friends thought I was serious, that I really thought I'd marry him some day. I just played along with that and had some good laughs.

[Gharlane]

Hmmmmm.

Suzi Quattro and Olivia Neutron Bomb.:)

[Buttercup]

I had kind of a little crush on Kristy McNichol back in the 70s.

I hated her. :lol: But that's only because she got to be in a Starsky & Hutch episode. :p I was so jealous. ;) I was also jealous of Brooke Shields, lol.

And I have to say - I never noticed it when younger, but I have recently come to realize that Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins was H - O - T hot. :shifty:

:confused: Well, to each their own. :) Never heard anyone say that, but it's interesting.

[geonuc]

Hmmmmm.

Suzi Quattro and Olivia Neutron Bomb.:)
Yes, indeed. Especially Olivia Newton John (but I like your name for her).

[Fazor]

Mine was a baseball player--the Detroit Tigers' Travis Fryman.

Ah, a former Indian aswell. I remember the name, but I can't match a face to it.

[Gharlane]

Yes, indeed. Especially Olivia Newton John (but I like your name for her).

Apt I though as she did rock my world when I was a teen.:)

[geonuc]

Ah, a former Indian aswell. I remember the name, but I can't match a face to it.
Pumpkin may not have been looking at his face, either. :eek:

[SeanF]

And I have to say - I never noticed it when younger, but I have recently come to realize that Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins was H - O - T hot. :shifty:
:confused: Well, to each their own. :) Never heard anyone say that, but it's interesting.
Pay attention next time you watch the move. Look for those little looks she gives Bert. Sure, she acts all prim and proper, but believe you me - underneath that corset beats the heart of a naughty girl.

Suzi Quattro and Olivia Neutron Bomb.:)
Suzi Quatro was cute, but somehow I didn't have any exposure to her until later in my life. According to her wiki page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzi_Quattro), she's Sherilyn Fenn's aunt! (And I just realized in copying that link that, although her name is spelled with one 't' throughout the article, there are two in the URL.)

[danscope]

Tinaa wrote in a different thread:

Mine was Shaun Cassidy. :) (Looking back now I'm not sure why :confused:) I was glued to every episode of The Hardy Boys. :p

My other great heart throb was Alan Longmuir, bassist of The Bay City Rollers. I checked an online pic from 1976 last year; yep, still handsome even to this older eye. ;)
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Hi, Anit ekberg, shelly fabares, Tuesday Weld,Connie Stevens, and the best..
Marilyn Monroe. Did I mention Jane Russell ? :0 yes. Back in the day.
Dan

[Gillianren]

Interestingly, Annette's teenage heartthrob was Guy Williams; Walt gave her a guest slot on Zorro as a birthday present because he knew that. Wouldn't it be nice to have had a friend like Walt?

It is also interesting that you can (mostly) tell how old people are from this thread. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm finding that I had assumed a lot of people were younger than they are.

Also, is it weird when you fall for fictional characters? I've three. I had a huge crush on Hawkeye Pierce, and in high school and college, I developed deep affection for Sydney Carton and Lord Peter Wimsey.

[danscope]

Ah...fictional characters. Morticia Addams (Carolyn Jones ). I could mention
Shirley Jones as well. They make the world go round.
Best regards,
Dan

[PetersCreek]

Nichelle Nichols
Susan Oliver (the original, very green, Orion Slave Girl)
Carrie Fischer (that didn't last very long!)
Pam Dawber
Miss JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptembe rOctoberNovemberDecember, 1977

[danscope]

Hi, Susan Oliver was in a twilight Zone episope where Roddy McDowel went to mars, crash landed with his partner dying. She was a knock out. !!!
Dan

[Kelfazin]

I went for the blonde supermodels when I was a teen. Christie Brinkley was smiling at me, I'm sure of it.

[Gemini]

Mila Kunis-Family Guy, That 70's show
Summer Glau- Firefly, Sarah Connor Chronicles
Megan Fox - Transformers
Grace Park-BSG, SG-1

Edited to add:
Jewel Staite: Stargate Atlantis, Firefly
Lexa Doig: SG-1, Andromeda
Amanda Tapping: SG-1
Morena Baccarin : SG-1, Firefly, V
Billie Piper: Dr. Who

[redshifter]

Wow, talk about a walk down memory lane! Let's see:

The Solid Gold dancers
Dawn Wells (Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island)
Marilyn Monroe

[HenrikOlsen]

Felicity Kendal in The Good life (http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/goodlife/index.shtml) still makes my heart throb:)

[mugaliens]

Susan Dey, Farrah, DeWitt of Three's Company, Bo Derek...

Well, those are the names everyone threw around. I was more interested in the local babes, such as Lori, Penny, Susan, Cheryl...

[Frog march]

Shelley Long, Sally Field and Carrie Fisher, to name but three. :)

[Tobin Dax]

Summer Glau- Firefly, Sarah Connor Chronicles
Grace Park-BSG, SG-1
Since this thread is about teen heartthrobs, Summer Glau and Katee Sackhoff (also from Battlestar Galactica) don't count for me.

I actually just remembered that Rachel Hunter was probably my first. Kirsten Dunst was another, starting a few years later.

[Jens]

Kate Bush, and still is.
I met her once when she was doing some studio work, I was setting up the desk.


That's cool. Though she was a bit before my time. I encountered her through PG, though Wuthering Heights is one of my favorite songs now.

Teenage heart throbs: Cheryl Ladd was one. And Phoebe Cates. Molly Ringwald maybe. Yeah, and Kristy McNichol, too. From the Love Boat. And maybe I should mention Emmanuelle Beart. . .

[Jens]

That's cool. Though she was a bit before my time. I encountered her through PG, though Wuthering Heights is one of my favorite songs now.

Actually, I should qualify that. It wasn't that she was before my time. It was just that I lived on the wrong side of the Atlantic. Wuthering Heights hit number 1 in the UK, but in the US it only reached 108. So I just happened to be at the wrong place at the right time. . . I never even heard the song until years later.

[mahesh]

Shelley Long, Sally Field and Carrie Fisher, to name but three. :)
Cool.

To this I'd add, not an exhaustive list: In no particular preferential order, who'd make me turn my head around ...

Catherine Ross; Faye Dunaway; Charlotte Rampling;
Julia Louis-Dreyfuss (adorable Elaine Benes); there are many more...enough for now...

And another one; I never really appreciated / and have never seen, until recently and only at youtube...
is the late, Indian actress...Madhubala.
(can't link...hard to choose...there are billions)

She was apparently, asked to go (invited to come) to Hollywood, in the fifties; she never did. Impish, funny...a natural..

Monroe and Madhubala could have been close sisters. Both, adorable women.

[gzhpcu]

Marilyn Monroe....:)

[chrissy]

There were a few :

Suggs from Madness..:D

ooooh! Nick Kershaw, he was my dream....I was 16 and at college, I would have his tape in my personal stereo walkman...singing in my ears to me.

[Doodler]

I was in my late teens, like 18-19, before anyone particularly grabbed me by the hormones.

Gillian Anderson. Whilst cruising Ocean City, I walked into a poster shop that had one of Ms. Anderson bedecked in an unzipped-to-the-navel black leather bodysuit that stopped me dead in my tracks.

Nerd chic with traces of bad-girlism. Me likey.

[Dgennero]

There were several when I was in my teens, early to mid-80s, both women and men, among other Yvette Mimieux, Sigourney Weaver, Leonard Nimoy (!) and a little later ... Kenny Morrison: http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/willis/73/pics.html starting with neverending story part2 and later other movies, among other playing Gerron in Star Trek Voyager.

[chrissy]

There were several when I was in my teens, early to mid-80s, both women and men, among other Yvette Mimieux, Sigourney Weaver, Leonard Nimoy (!) .....

My bold.

Leonard Nemoy, I did have a huge crush on him, I didn't want to write that...ToSeek will be watching my every move now...:shifty:

[jrkeller]

Lynda Carter especially in her Wonder Women outfit

[redshifter]

Lynda Carter especially in her Wonder Women outfit


Good one! I also forgot to mention Daisy Duke in her...daisy dukes!

[Nick Theodorakis]

Emma Peel, from The Avengers.

Yeoman Janice Rand (ST: TOS).

Marcia Brady.

Karen Valentine (Room 222).

[danscope]

Did I mention Donna Douglas as Ellie Mae Clampett ? :):):)
A sittin by the ceement pond! unnn...doggies!
Dan

[ToSeek]

I developed a huge crush on British actress Fiona Fullerton after seeing her in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (If you've seen her, it's probably as Pola Ivanova sharing a hot tub with Roger Moore in A View To a Kill - something she greatly enjoyed - though that was a decade or so later.)

Susan Dey and the two older Brady daughters get an honorable mention.

[AndrewJ]

Annie, the bassist in Elastica. Long after they split I saw her in a pub in Brighton and she smiled at me as I came out of the toilet!

Also, Isabella Scorupco - I took a job in Poland specifically because of her.

[Dgennero]

@chrissy: I've once read in a book about Star Trek and their fen (sic! scientifiction fen ;) ) that a crush on Spock is not unusual at all, because to "emotionally compromise" a Vulcan (ok, half) seems a challenge.

[mahesh]

Amongst my other admirees (?), I have Ingrid Bergman, her daughter, Isabella Rossellini.
Hotlips (fictional), Susan Sarandon; Sigourney Weaver; Laura Dern; Joanna Lumley (for her off-screen persona)

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edited: as an afterthought

[tdvance]

My sister's teen heart throb (and she's still infatuated at nearly 40) is Barry Manilow. She is very happy to have finally been able to meet him in Vegas last month, right before he canceled much of his touring.

As for me--I can't remember falling for anyone on TV or movies, really. Well, I liked Carrie Fisher in Jabba's palace. But that's not the same as an obsession.

[tdvance]

@chrissy: I've once read in a book about Star Trek and their fen (sic! scientifiction fen ;) ) that a crush on Spock is not unusual at all, because to "emotionally compromise" a Vulcan (ok, half) seems a challenge.

Asimov said as much--and also that female Asimov fans often had crushes on his robot Giskard. Now, THAT is one I don't understand.

[mahesh]

er...I didn't know Charlotte Rampling's father was an Olympian.
Gold medallist, Berlin, 1936. Hmmm. The dear passed away, Saturday, week ago.
R I P Sir.

Quote, wiki, partly:
Godfrey Lionel Rampling (14 May 1909 - 20 June 2009) was a former English athlete and army officer who competed for Great Britain in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He turned 100 on 14 May 2009 and was the oldest living British Olympian.
...He was, as of October 2007, the last surviving male athletics medallist from the 1932 Summer Olympics and the last male gold medallist in athletics from the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Rampling was Britain's oldest living Olympic Gold medallist and also oldest living Olympic competitor. He celebrated his centenary with his family, including daughter Charlotte, on 14 May 2009 at Bushey in Hertfordshire. Rampling died in his sleep aged 100 on 20 June 2009.


sorry Buttercup...excuse the hi-jack...

[Dgennero]

@tdvance: Giskard? Maybe because of his mental abilities, but humanoid R. Daneel surely was a better bet.

[raptorthang]

Hmmmm?

There was a Canadian show back in the 60's none of you would know. It was called the 'Forest Rangers'. The kids never seemed to go to school...lived in the wilderness in a fort..rode horses...hiked ...went fishing...paddled canoes, etc. Anyways the girl in that show. wow! Looking back on it she was about ten. Four feet tall and and had pigtails.

As a young teen it was Agent 99 in 'Get Smart'

[Gillianren]

But that's not the same as an obsession.

I doubt any of us had crushes that amounted to obsession. I mean, all right, when I was a sophomore in high school, I could tell that no one had checked out the school's copy of Silence of the Lambs since I had, because the picture of Christian Slater I'd used as a bookmark was still in it. I've seen both Pump Up the Volume and Heathers probably more times than is strictly healthy. But I didn't even actually own a poster. I never wrote a fan letter. I certainly never threw acid at anyone because they didn't like him!

[captain swoop]

There were a few :

Suggs from Madness..:D
.

Did you see their Glastonbury set? great stuff.

[mahesh]

Amongst my other admirees (?), I have Ingrid Bergman, her daughter, Isabella Rossellini.
Hotlips (fictional), Susan Sarandon; Sigourney Weaver; Laura Dern; Joanna Lumley (for her off-screen persona)

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edit: deleted personal comment. don't want to embarrass my friend and all concerned.

plus I think Joan Rivers and Ruby Wax have made laugh for many years and I love them both.
They can come around for a pizza anytime!

[Gillianren]

Out of idle curiousity, how many people have read the name of someone's heartthrob and thought, "Who?"

[geonuc]

Out of idle curiousity, how many people have read the name of someone's heartthrob and thought, "Who?"
I haven't recognized a few.

[kleindoofy]

As a budding teenager in the early seventies. Marcia Brady.