Agree with all of the above. Suzanne was a class act-the last scene in the closing episode of Newhart was CLASSIC.
You need to throw Pam Grier in that mix, too. God Almighty, but did she stir a rumble in me loins as a young man (hell, still does)...
Oh...Pam's in her own class. She has a post of her own coming up. 
This will be the SECOND time TODAY commenting on the 4:30 Movie:
I remember back when Channel 5 was WNEW, "a Metromedia station". Everything I know about movies comes from Channel 5 (Musicals, Cagney, Bogie and the Bowery Boys), Channel 11 WPIX (Danny Kaye, Abbott and Costello, Mighty Joe Young and March of the Wooden Soldiers every Thanksgiving), and Channel 9 WOR (Joe Franklin and the Million Dollar Movie), with just a bit of Channel 7 WABC and their 4:30 Movie.
I loved, loved then, still do:
Vera-Ellen
Kathryn Grayson
Suzanne Pleshette, Karen Black(circa rm 222)along with Denise Nicholas, Nichelle Nichols(still today as a 60+ year old she is hot to me). Of the younger female stars I absolutely am stone smitten with both Terri Farrell(Star Trek DS-9) and Jill Hennessy(from Law & Order)
LM I need to get my butt to the city and have a drink or three in commiseration with you.
Dude, you forgot Planet of the Apes week. 4:30 movie rocked!
Twisted Martini:
HOW could I forget “Ape Week?”
“It's a madhouse! A madhouse!”
Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in The Avengers.
She gave me stirrings at age 6.
“Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in The Avengers.”
That. Shiny. Black. Cat. Suit.
Damn.
Ladies, feel free to join in with your choices. A friend just called me after reading and mentioned George Peppard in “Breakfast at Tiffany's”
Yours?
Definite second on Diana Rigg and raise you Honor Blackman. Of course Pam Grier!
I will cry like a baby when Paul Newman makes his final curtain call. I met him once, in the 70's, in a foreign auto parts place in Connecticut, and he was gorgeous and charming and gorgeous, and took the time to engage a frankly star-struck, babbling twit (me) in conversation, when he easily could have blown right by me. What a mensch.
Gregory Peck. My God. Has any man ever aged as well as Peck? The voice, the face, the hair, the height...GAWD, I can't work anymore now... I was brokenhearted when he died.
Punkster:
You just reminded me of the classic example of my lust archetype.
There's a short they run on TCM with Newman doing the voice-over on his friend...
Elizabeth Taylor.
My God.
She was the Omega to Marilyn's Alpha—the dark-haired counterbalance and sultry, swarthy “Jeannie II” to Marilyn's blonde “Jeannie I”. The two actresses you could say peaked at the same point—from 1950 to 1962-3.
Taylor in “Cat On A Hot Tin Roof” and “Butterfield 8” was the fully ripened version of the barely legal lust-object she was in her “Place In The Sun” and “Love Is Better Than Ever” (a little seen one from 1950 when she was about 18 and nearly bursting with sensuality —it's a literal parent film to the TV series “That Girl”) days.
That big mop of inky-black hair, that face, that body...that un-teachable ability to communicate desire through a camera lens.
Lord have mercy.
I don't know if I'm typical, but I was never one for pretty boys. I mean, my favorite Beatle was Ringo (though I later changed allegiances to George). Paul was too typically pretty. John was too strange.
But I always liked those big testosterone-and-sugar packages -- the good-hearted guys who were perfectly capable of knocking the shit out of the bad guy, but would usually try to out-think them first. James Garner played a lot of these characters. Dennis Quaid's done his share.
I like the super-smart dangerous ones, too. James Spader's intense and troubled bad boys just grab ahold of something deliciously terrifying, and don't let go. I've dated a few real-world versions of those guys (and married one), and it always started intensely and ended badly. I'd like to think I know better now, but sometimes I'm not so sure.
But my only real movie-star crush (as far as it got, which wasn't very) was on Tom Selleck came along. Oh. my. God. Tall and gorgeous and those twinkling blue eyes...and the mustache. No scary bad-boy there, just a big hunk of sweet, protective Nice Guy. I'm a big fan of well-trimmed facial hair, and when Selleck twitched that 'stache, I'd just sort of quietly ache.
Selleck and I both went to USC (though he was a good decade ahead of me). Magnum was on the air at the same time I was in college. For the duration of the show, he had the use of a red Ferrari; and every once in a while, I'd see it parked on campus. The fact that he's still married to the same girl after all these years suggests that the high-integrity guys he plays probably aren't much of a stretch for him. What you see is exactly what you get.
And, no, it doesn't bother me that he's a conservative, either. Conservatives come in a lot of flavors, a few of which (for instance, the cowboy flavor, which I grew up with) I find quite tasty. Selleck's definitely one of those. I suspect we'd find a far wider range of agreement than most people might imagine.
Mrs. R. YES, YES, YES!!! I even like the later, craggier Selleck, and he's playing some pretty flawed (and interesting)characters lately.
A second on Diana Rigg, and two prototypical blondes: Yvette Mimieux and Peggy Lipton.
LM, I must complement your taste.
even like the later, craggier Selleck, and he's playing some pretty flawed (and interesting)characters lately.
CBS had a pre-game NFL Films feature about the Patriots' run to the AFC title game. Narrated by Tom Selleck.
Sophia Loren, Ursula Andress, Jane Fonda, Julie Christie, and Wally ‘Leave It to Beaver’ Cleaver’s mom, Barbara Billingsley.
There was nothing PC about my teenaged years and besides Pleshette I was at times head over heels over Barbara Eden, Elizabeth Montgomery, Mrs. Peel (Rigg out of the leather gear not so much), Julie Newmar, Paula Prentiss and just about any other woman on TV under sixty.
Then again, none of them matched up to my preteen crushes for Julie Andrews and Hayley Mills. I was scandalized when Andrews got divorced.
Any folks from your youth you fell in love with the same way? Feel free to share your memories in comments.--LoLo
Only two - and you knew who they were the moment you walked into my Brown Univ. college dorm room:
Left hand side -
Classic blow up poster of Pam Grier nude in a giant cocktail/martini glass
Right hand side -
Classic blow up poster of Betty Davis as Space Diva Queen Of Sextron from her "They Say I'm Different" album.
That is all...
1) Pam Grier
2) Betty (Mabry) Davis
1) Betty (Mabry) Davis
2) Pam Grier
We recently rented a disc with three episodes of Maverick.
When I was a kid I had such a crush on him.
Now, we were surprised (and pleased) to find that Maverick was funny. as a kid I had no idea that it was a spoof. And James Garner looked so, so, so, clean-cut! I was surprised.
This is all very interesting. Agreed with the above on Dianna Rigg (in or out of leather), Pam Grier, Yvette Mimeux and Barbara Eden. The one not mentioned so-far who got my teenage crush was Adrienne Barbeau when she co-starred in Maude.
LM (or anyone), which NYC channel had that quirky intro for their late night movies, the one which the sound track was also used in the old Maxwell House coffee comercials ? I always associate that tune with the even then ancient black and white TV I had as a kid.
Suzanne Pleshette looked good in B&W.
Agent 99 (Barbara Feldon)!
Hmm...brunette for-a-day Elizabeth Montgomery playing Serena, Samantha's pain-in-the-ass sister (and billed in the credits as "Pandora Spocks!")
Carolyn Jones as Morticia Addams.
Jan Smithers in WKRP.
Really characters more than the actresses themselves.
Jan Smithers was one that stands out from my childhood. To this day I still find Bailey Quarters sexier than Jennifer.
Science Fiction week on the 4:30 movie: Fantastic Voyage, The Fly (the original, of course, with David Hedison), two days of Journey to the Center of the Earth, and...?
I can still hum the theme to the 4:30 movie intro.
When I was five or so, at Grandma's house watching the Monkees, Mike Nesmith made me ache with longing even before I knew what any of that grown-up stuff was about (he still has that effect on me, but now it's mostly his voice). A few years later Randolph Mantooth on Emergency! also caught my attention in a big, big way. Those tallish, slim, soulful guys (Townes Van Zandt fits in there too) get me every time. It's not that I'm big on those particular aesthetics in "real life", but there's clearly a pattern there.
But then again, I had a humongo crush on Speed Racer, too.
I'm really dating myself here!
Thalia Meninger on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (I liked Zelda too.) Now, of course, Zelda is my hero....or at least Sheila Kuehl.
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