Annette Funicello was my first celebrity crush---who was yours?

[trumad]

Her passing today brings a bit of sadness to me. As a young kid in the sixties, I was into the Mickey Mouse Club---and especially into Annette Funicello.

I had a huge crush on her. SO---I consider one of my first crushes ever.

Who was yours?

[ohiosmith]

1. The same!

[TrogL]

2. Sean Connery

Kinda disturbing at the time because I'm a guy and didn't know about bisexuality.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

3. I had to think about it... Fabian Forte!

I thought he was the sun, moon and stars!

[Downwinder]

4. Ann Margret, still is.

[Moondog]

8. I've met her, briefly, a couple of times over the years.

Stunningly tiny (short). Very sweet lady.

[Downwinder]

14. I can't believe that she didn't make the New Trier

10 Outstanding Alumni list but Rummey did.

http://www.newtrier.k12.il.us/page.aspx?id=19570

[Moondog]

15. Different values - different list.

Doesn't matter. Great lady.

[In_The_Wind]

5. My first crush ...

[Moondog]

6. I had three. At about the same time -

Tina Louise, Barbara Feldon, and Barbara Eden.

[trumad]

9. I was a Mary Ann guy back then.

[Moondog]

11. And she was very cute too.

I was young. And at that point in my life mostly into blondes and redheads. Later I moved on to brunettes. And back again. I've had periods where I favored specific colorations. Kind of like Picasso. Heh.

Now, well, a reasonably appealing woman of a certain age who has a sense of humor, who will put up with me, and whose kinks are more or less aligned with mine is . . . freakin' beautiful.

[Dr. Strange]

7. I don't remember the absolute first.

But one of the earliest would be Heather Menzies.

[Glorfindel]

10. Tony Dow ("Leave It to Beaver")

n/t

[Wait Wut]

12. I think it was a tie.

Brian Keith and the guy that played Rooster on Barretta.

After that it was Robert Shaw and Omar Sharif.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

13. I loved Annette too when I was about four or five in the 1950s

and I'm sad we lost her but I must admit that Cheryl ruled my little heart on the Mickey Mouse club.





My very first crush though was on the lovely lady in the old Flash Gordon serials from the 1930s which they aired on TV in the early 1950s when I was about three. Jean Rogers played Flash Gordon’s girlfriend Dale Arden. My parents bought me a set of Flash Gordon action figures and I loved handling the Dale Arden one. I would always get excited when I touched it and I didn’t really understand why.

[olddots]

16. Sheila Kuehl === Zelda Gilroy on Dobie Gillis

I know I'm a hetro male 12 year old who has a crush on the first openly gay California state rep.with an IQ of about 250 -instead of Tuesday Weld I loved the under dog who loved the shallow beauty who didn't want Dobie because he wasn't rich ......... geez confusing but Sheila is one of the best humans alive.

[hifiguy]

47. Zelda was an inherently adorable character.

The trope - true enough - that she was smarter than everyone else on the show combined was so well done. Sheila Kuehl does rock IRL.

[Boomerproud]

17. The Beatles and David McCallum (When he was on the Man from UNCLE).

I had good taste if I say so myself.

[clo]

18. Bobby Rydell

Just looked, he's 70 too. Amazing how the years fly.

Annette suffered for years & was in a coma, now she is free from her crippled body & pain.

Walt Disney was 65 when he died.

[MissV]

19. Ozzy

[IrishEyes]

20. James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant.

I used to watch old movies a lot when I was a kid. I'm only in my early thirties.

[cliffordu]

21. It was all about Annette.

She made me feel funny in my belly.

And then I saw "Boy on a dolphin" with Sophia Loren.....


And figured things out.

[rmax]

22. The Wilson sisters

[trof]

23. I guess Elizabeth Taylor.

Still is, kinda.

[840high]

24. James Dean.

[mokawanis]

25. Maureen McCormick

aka Marcia, from the show The Brady Bunch.

[NNadir]

26. Camilla.

OK, OK...I know it's a little odd, but you try waiting around 66 years for your mum to kick off so you can be king and see what it does to you.

[madinmaryland]

27. Raquel Welch and Cher.

[txwhitedove]

28. Luke Halpin of "Flipper"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Halpin

[edbermac]

29. Barbara Eden

To this day I still dream of Jeannie.

[stlsaxman]

30. Diana Rigg as Emma Peel... tied with Carolyn Jones as Morticia Addams...

I'd say Morticia was first but, damn, something about Emma Peels black rubber outfit...

and I was WAY pre-pubescent!

[Art_from_Ark]

34. Diana Rigg as Emma Peel, Lee Merriwether as Catwoman,

Barbara Felden as Agent 99, and Barbara Eden as Jeannie.

I can't say who was first-- they all came along at around the same time.

[sendero]

36. Yes!

and Elizabeth Montgomery OMG!

[applegrove]

31. Johnny from "Emergency"

[RobinA]

39. If That Was

Randolph Mantooth, I'm with you. Followed by Michael Sarrazin (sp) when I got a little older. I obviously have a "type" and it hasn't changed much. Unfortunately there aren't many dark haired men at my age.

[GoCubsGo]

41. Yep.

I'm still crushing on him 40 years later. He got better looking as he got older.

[applegrove]

42. We used to watch it on Saturday nights. I loved his adam's apple.

[LadyHawkAZ]

57. He was my second crush

I can remember my sister helping me write a fan letter to Mantooth. I must have been about 5 at the time.

[applegrove]

66. I. must have been closing in on ten years old. I

don't remember having that heart afflutter feeling before that. We are all late bloomers in our family.

[MineralMan]

32. Darlene Gillespie, also on MMC.

[bike man]

33. Princess Summerfallwinterspring of the Howdy Doody show. In real life Judy Tyler.

[olddots]

35. Outstanding i was really young and she gave me a buzz.

She was on rarely but oh she was beautiful .

[bike man]

53. She was in Jailhouse Rock w/ Elvis

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0878849/bio

<snip>She returned to stage work and was "rediscovered" in a play in 1956, "Pipe Dream", which landed her on the cover of "Life" magazine. She made two films, the last as Elvis Presley's co-star, Jailhouse Rock (1957). Three weeks after shooting completed, she and her second husband were driving home from Los Angeles to New York when he swerved to avoid hitting a truck and collided with another vehicle; she was dead at the scene
<more at link>

[malthaussen]

37. Probably Carol Merrill.

Maybe Lori Saunders. I was young then.

-- Mal

[Common Sense Party]

38. Kristy McNichol

[TheManInTheMac]

73. I was crazy about Kristy McNichol. I bought the book "Family" just for her picture on the cover.

[Common Sense Party]

80. She was a cutie. I then shifted quickly into crushing on Cheryl Ladd.

[Aristus]

40. Karen Valentine.

[LeftInTX]

82. She was a cutie!

[Aristus]

86. I started crushing on her early. I was probably six or so.

I learned pretty early on that women were......different...

I never went through a 'girls: yuck!' stage like the other guys. I had 'em all to myself. The trouble was, this was when I was 8-12 or so, so having them all to myself wasn't all it was cracked up to be. By the time biology caught up, I started my 'awkward' phase, and girls didn't like me as much anymore...

[Sugarcoated]

43. Bobby Sherman!

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[Loryn]

54. Me too!

Peace, Love and Bobby Sherman!

[LeftInTX]

83. Have you seen this clip of Bobby?

He stole the show in this Monkees' clip. (My first crush was Davy Jones)
This is worth watching:
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[TheMightyFavog]

44. Amy Jo Johnston

The Pink Power Ranger.

Thuy Trang wasn't that bad, either. Sad what happened to her though.

[solara]

45. For me it was Pernell Roberts

Still don't know why, except he was older, dark and good looking and also he was the "smart" Cartwright boy








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[hifiguy]

46. I could never choose between these two beauties

[bluedigger]

48. That Girl.

[Apophis]

49. Britney Spears.

I went to high school in the late 90s.

[Ter]

61. That's odd

You didn't have a celeb crush before high school?

[Apophis]

65. I don't recall any before high school.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

50. Adam Troy of Adventures in Paradise.

TV show based on "Tales of the South Pacific" by James Michener, from which the musical "South Pacific" was also taken:

I was five or six.

[HughBeaumont]

51. Jodie Foster, Chastity Bono, Kristy MacNichol.

Yep . . . Suuuuuuuuuuuuuure could pick 'em!

[NewJeffCT]

52. Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman

I am sure I'm not alone with having her as a first celebrity crush, or celebrity crush in general.

[Iggo]

55. Back when i was 4 and 5 yrs old, I liked skinny blondes.

Petula Clark, Joanna Pettit, Goldie Hawn, and like that.

[femmocrat]

56. Elvis! OMG!

Well, Roy Rodgers was really first, but Elvis hit me like a ton of bricks when I was in fourth grade!

[LadyHawkAZ]

58. Davy Jones

[union_maid]

59. Annette was my idol. I so wanted to be like her

One of my first crushes was from the same show. I believe it was Spin from Spin and Marty. But there was also Joey from Fury. I guess the guys with the horses were a turn-on when I was...what..8, I guess.

[MountainMama]

60. Hmmmm....

I had a crush on Donny Osmond, and then I liked Scott Baio.....but when I was about 12 or 13 the "Superman" movie came out and that was it. Seeing Christopher Reeve jumpstarted my puberty.

And if I knew how to post pictures, I would. I still think he was one of the beautiful men ever.

[trumad]

62. Here ya go

[Neoma]

63. I don't remember.

But I really had a weird variety. Brad Dourif, Gary Oldman, Brent Spiner, and I've always had a thing for (protrayed) smart blonde women as well...Amber Benson, Gwyneth Paltrow...sigh.

[AsahinaKimi]

64. My first crush...

Takashi Sorimachi

[LiberalElite]

67. Richard Chamberlain a/k/a Dr. Kildare

[Xipe Totec]

68. Elizabeth Montgomery

[Blue_In_AK]

69. Ricky Nelson

[Jokerman]

70. Natalie Wood

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[Arugula Latte]

71. David Cassidy, Bob from Sesame Street, Glenn Campbell and Andy Williams

David Cassidy ... okay ... but the others ... hmmm ... I was a bit weird as a child, I see ...

[TheManInTheMac]

72. Yvonne De Carlo as Lily Munster.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

74. Ringo Starr -

I was 4 years old when I saw "Hard Day's Night".

[Waltons_Mtn]

75. Diane Lane

She was 17 or 18 and I was 12.

[Newest Reality]

76. Shirley MacLaine - NT

[Grammy23]

77. Ricky Nelson was one of the first.

I remember writing a fan letter and getting an "autographed" picture sent back to me. I almost swooned when I opened it. LOL

Later I stood in a very long line at an event sponsored by several companies for an open house in Jackson, MS for an all electric house. The celebrities were the Miss America at the time (I truly have forgotten which one) and Michael Landon. I got to shake his hand and was so shy and overwhelmed to actually get to meet him in person that I couldn't even look at him! We had waited in the hot sun for what seemed like hours and then when I had my big chance to see him was too shy to look him in the eyes. It was still great and we talked about that for days and days! That had to have been about 55 years ago and I still remember it!

[Arkansas Granny]

78. Edd "Kookie" Byrnes.

[kwassa]

79. Sophia Loren

[triguy46]

81. A set of twins

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[aint_no_life_nowhere]

85. Like half the boys in America reaching puberty

in the 1960s I had a crush on Hayley Mills. She wasn't my first crush by any means but she was one of the big ones, especially after I saw her in the 1963 Disney movie Summer Magic. I was 13 that summer and after seeing her I wanted to run away to Hollywood to become an actor in the hopes of meeting her.

[grantcart]

84. Candice Bergman

Was there any other?

Named my first daughter after her too!