Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, Barbara Stanwyck, Jean Arthur, Georgia Hale
*sigh*

Myrna Loy, Claudette Colbert, Carole Lombard.

Ummmmmm.....gene Tierney, Dorothy Lamour, RITA HAYWORTH!!, Ann Sheridan, Susan Hayward, Joan Crawford (actually, I think I am intimidated by her, but she is so, well, yum), and Norma Shearer... www.lafterhall.com/shearer.html

Watch your back!
Jim

Cary Grant-
and still searching for my Sir Grant!
cheers-
W

I think I would say Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd were a great combination that had me trying to decide which I would take first, hah!

Boris Karloff and Olivia de Havilland

Teresa Wright and Gail Russell.

Not to mention Vincent Price and Cary Grant.

Myrna Loy makes me weak...

Eva Marie Saint makes me wanna ride a train... for a long time... for a really long time...

Greta Garbo, Louise Brooks, Myrna Loy, Rita Hayworth, Ava Gardner, Jane Russell, Vivien Leigh and my all time crush...Jean Seberg.

Anna May Wong, WOW!

mitchum. mitchum. mitchum. Yum.

P
I also get excited over James Cagney during his 'badass' roles. I mean, not the 'with a heart of gold' characters, I am talking aobut Cody Jarrett. I guess I long for a man with a grapefruit to waste.

There are certain films that I'll develop a crush on the actress. Lauren Bacall's film debut in "To Have and Have Not" makes me tingly all over where as in "Key Largo" for example, she doesn't do much for me. Carole Lombard in "My Man Godfrey" established my soft spot for wacky women. My first classic film crush was on Donna Reed in "It's a Wonderful Life" and my most recent is Jane Greer in "Out of the Past." Biggest hardcore crush of all is Barbara Stanwyck in “The Lady Eve.” The scene where she's seducing Fonda in the ship’s cabin in that black, Edith Head designed dress with the midriff...anyway it's just too damn hot for words.

Gene Kelly turns me on! I love watching him dance. I also like Cary Grant's voice and those dark eyes.

Barbara Stanwyck is the queen of my woman crushes.

Not Black and White, but James Dean gets me everytime. And I really like young Elvis.

Lana Turner, and Myrna Loy.

Julie Adams from Creature from the black lagoon. She was a true living Pin-up.

Mae West. Wow. What a woman. What a body. What a hunger for sex. And she was a great fighter against censorship, as well!

Thelma Todd. Jean Seberg and Louise Brooks. Grace Kelly.

Myrna Loy! In The Barbarian Ms Loy is in a bathtub and if you look real close she is 'sans' clothing. This movie was pre Hayes code.
Greta Garbo in Queen Christina. Deborah Kerr and a young Gary Cooper, because he was so pretty.

Robert Mitchum - always, Clark Gable in Gone With the Wind, Gregory Peck in Duel in the Sun. Old movies mastered steamy innuendo, unbearable sexual tension and the power of salacious suggestion.

Gene Kelly! I think he's so handsome - and what a great physique.

Hi all,
---I looked for my big ol' '40s crush on the list here, but I could not find him, did I just overlook his many entries...
Dana Andrews!
---Leslie Howard has always been kind of a crush of mine since I was, like 10. He has an understated, sweet, strong, way and now I read on this list that he may have been very well endowed, so to speak, gosh and such a honey of a guy.

---I'm straight, very straight, but I could see throwing that aside for Norma Shearer, Teresa Wright or Alice Faye.
For a crush, crush though, it is Dana Andrews!

My number one silver screen crush since I was a kid has always been Yvonne De Carlo. The older I have gotten the more I have appreciated her. I had a "boy crush" on her growing up, not knowing then what a big star she was even before I was born. I first knew her as "Lily Munster". No amount of theatrical makeup could hide her beauty, and more--can't believe that I'm saying this-- her caring, gentle affectionate personality showed through that role. Dare I say that she showed ideal motherly qualities as she played that role? Odd to say, isn't it?

I remember the first time I saw her in another role was the first time I saw the "10 Commandments". There she looked the opposite of her Munsters role--like the girl next door whom you might fall in love with with a simple beauty and a humble, gentle spirit. Almost made me wish I could go back in time to be old enough to know her and date her.

I later learned what a talented singer she was, besides being an accomplished dancer. And her big screen persona, she could just melt your heart. I love her rendition of "I'm Here". If you listen to the lyrics closely, it shows that she knew, as St. Paul describes "what it is to have plenty and to live in want". She grew up in the Great Depression, did not have immediate success in Hollywood, and through much of her career, her real talent was often overlooked and underappreciated. Yet, she had a three-year relationship with Howard Hughes, and played opposite some of the biggest stars of her day, including Burt Lancaster, Clark Gable and John Wayne. She was not just another pretty face, at one time was considered "the most beautiful woman in the world"(just look at her early photographs and, believe me, the claim isn't exaggerated, she quite literally takes my breath away),. She was a woman of substance, really talented in so many ways, not just good-looking. In the interviews I have seen, she was always interesting, forthright, honest, intelligent and witty.

She really was a woman I wish I could have met in real life, and could wish I could go back in time and place. I know I would have fallen in love with her. She was just a couple of years older than my own mother and father who have also passed from this world. Well, I I want to see my own folks most of all when it's my turn, but after and reuniting with friends and family, she would be high on my list of people i'd want to meet there.

Even as she got older, she always maintained a beauty appropriate to her age. I think of her honest sincerity when she appeared on the talk show "Vicki" in the early nineties. I loved seeing her sincerely affectionate reaction when Butch Patrick (Eddie Munster) appeared on the same show, after not seeing her for many years. I know if I were him, playing that role and having her as a stage mom, I would have had a "boy crush" on her from the get-go.

I can never get enough of Yvonne De Carlo and try to learn about her as much as I can get. I've been an admirer of her from afar nearly as long as I can remember. Since she has passed, I really miss her and am not ashamed that I have prayed for her and hope that she rests in a better place than this on the other side. I hope I'm not too crazy to say that she'd be someone I'd love to look up when it's my turn to go to the other side.

Carroll

I always loved young Barbara Stanwyck. she's totally gorgeous! Also, when I was younger, I loved watching Artists and Models just to see Shirley McLaine. And, later I fell for Isabella Rossellini...

Robert Taylor - a bit of a pretty boy early on in his career, but later in Ivanhoe and 50's Westerns he was quite a looker.