Did you have a schoolgirl crush on a film star?

James Mason, Dirk Bogarde, Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif.

A friend couldn’t make it to a David Essex concert so I went along instead. He wasn’t really on my radar but wow! He made us all feel he was singing directly to us. Great entertainer and great voice. He’s aged beautifully as well.

I think im not as old as some on here- at nearly 57- but i too still like James Dean, (my mum loved his few films) such a waste of a young talented actor.Also, in the 70's i had a huge crush on David Cassidy- not a film star (though im sure my mum said his dad Jack was?) but a Tv & singing star- and later, when i was an adult, and he made a comeback tour, i went to a concert he did in Blackpool, as it was a coach trip organised by our local paper, they put us up in the Hilton hotel- it turns out David was staying there too! I Was in foyer chatting to 2 other ladies on our coach trip, when he walked in with his wife and 2 minders & manager and as they sat & chatted i summoned up courage to go introduce myself to him, i shook his hand & said how great the concert was, & told him my eldest daughter had same birthday as him!- he asked me how id managed that-? & laughed- we spoke a bit more & he even let me kiss him goodbye on the cheek! He really was a lovely man- i just wish my late mum had still been alive so i could have told her all about it- as my bedroom when a teen had been covered in his posters & i wouldn't let her decorate! The other 2 ladies didnt dare go speak to him, but im so glad i did!

Well if we're including pop stars then George Harrison was the man for me. I loved him. He chatted with a group of us girls once - well George spoke, I gawped open mouthed.

Sussexborn- Yes, Davis Essex was a close fave too, in those days- but Mr Cassidy definitely came first in line for me! Oh and David Soul, of Starskey & Hutch fame on tv too, was a 2nd fave to David Cassidy- (what was it about all the Davids back then- all talented & great looking??)

I was in love with Richard Chamberlain. (Dr. Kildare and the Thorn Birds. )

My late mum always said James Mason had a lovely voice- and she was right.

Terence Stamp in Far from the Madding Crowd. Peter McEnery who I first saw in The Greengage Summer (Hayley Mills first on screen kiss) David Hemmings, Oliver Tobias.

Can I have two ? I feel location where filmed has much to do with it + plus John Barry background music .
Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves) +Robert Redford(Out of Africa ).I have family where dances was filmed and when visiting can visualise life all those years ago as many residents still live on reservations .

Vince Edwards from Ben Casey
Last 30 years Axl Rose from Guns N Roses

I was about 7 when I heard a knock on our front door. Very unusual as the constant stream of visitors usually just came straight in. I answered the knock then quickly shut the door in the man’s face because I thought it was Clarke Gable. It was one of my Mum’s brothers who rarely visited. Fortunately they both thought it was funny.

I had a massive crush on George Harrison from the Beatles but really, my only lasting one has been for Marianne Faithful!

David McCallum for me too, I've just looked him up online and he is 86 now!

Calendargirl oh yes, loved Omar sharif in Mayerling. Was a brilliant film. Unfortunately it’s never shown on TV and you can’t get it on DVD or Blueray. X

It has to be Tony Curtis as a 15yr old ....... Then Roger Moore. He was gorgeous. Often if filming an episode
of "The Saint " needed a hospital scene then it was where I trained....... It was amazing how he could unfold getting out of the sports car and there was never a crease in his clothes.

My first film favourite was Errol Flynn!!! (I am over 80!)

Then:

Gregory Peck
Paul Newman
Patrick Swayze (after Dirty Dancing!)

Ooh yes. Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain aka Dr Kildare. I had a “signed” picture from him.

Gregory Peck was my crush....... Years later, I named my son Gregory..... and he loves his name , as he was the only one with the name in his school. He had three Matthews and four Daniels in his class alone in the ‘90’s .

No, I never had a crush on any film star, as a teenager, but I had a violent crush on our church organist, and later on Yehudi Menuhin. I watched all his master classes on BBC2.

My mother thought him a marvellous violinist, but found him arrogant as a person when teaching on the television. I never could see that.

Yes , several of those mentioned from the 50s but mostly Dirk Bogarde
This lasted until the 60s when an acquaintance mentioned that she used to be on the switchboard at the Savoy where he would stay
The 'code' there was 'I would like to speak to Mary'. They were always happy to receive such calls which they found somewhat amusing. My teenage dreams were shattered

Another vote for Rowdy Yates here - and also Kookie from 77, Sunset Strip - he was gorgeous !

For those of you partial to Alain Delon, Discivering Alain Delon is on Sky Arts tomorrow at 6pm.

I also fancied Oliver Reed, but only for his looks, don't like a drunk.
Roger Moore as Ivanhoe
Elvis of course, mainly pre army days.
Others have come and gone, can't remember them now.

My film crushes were Ben Murphy from Alias Smith and Jones And Paul Newman.
But as marriage material I couldn’t choose between Paul McCartney and Davy Jones from the Monkees

The one I seemed to favour for a while was Troy Donohue. Saw him in Where the Boys Are and that was it. Blonde hair, contrasting with a red jumper or sweater as it would be called now. I can still see him wearing it and hear his voice. Ahhh, young love.

In the 60s in Italy, for a while Clint Eastwood was our dosser
It went like this. He'd done the Rawhide series, then work dried up. In Cinnecitta at that time they were churning out all those 'Spaghetti Westerns' so he moved to Rome to try his luck. My then partner, later o/h, and I met him v. late at night,in a Club. He'd always travel wearing his cowboy hat, shoes with built-up heels, with his guitar over his shoulder, hoping to play for his supper. He'd been thrown out of his pensione cos he couldn't pay the rent, so we offered him a bed for a couple of nights til his money came through.
And thats how he became our 'dosser'