Debbie Reynolds

oh dear... uhm, good question! Who was famous in the late 60's...?
Kim Novak?

lol it doesn't really. Heck, he could've been infatuated with Ginger Rogers. Actually, I could kind of see him being into the musicals of old.... he's quirky like that ^_^

Raquel Welsh?
Julie Christie?

Barbara Eden, of course! That's when Jack first started his love affair with blondes and his desire to go Air Force.

And now, instead of calling him "master" Jack's genie calls him "sir". And she regularly does the impossible, just like Jeannie! :D

Nao, pls be writing the one where Jack tries to convince Sam to wear a Jeannie costume for Halloween.

Hm. Well, I'm of the belief that men's tastes generally don't change too much. If they were into dizzy cheerleaders in high school, chances are at the reunion you'll see them married to a trophy wife. The band geeks that dated other band geeks in school always seem to end up marrying engineers.

So, given that, and the fact that we know older Jack has a thing for Mary Steenbergen and *cough* Sam Carter *cough* both of whom are smart, girl-next-door kinds of gals. And both are perhaps a little Mary-Jane, at least they appear to be at times... I'm going to vote that high school Jack had a thing for the same kind of slightly Mary-Jane girl-next-door in school.

However, lusting after celebrities with hot bodies is an entirely different thing... so whomever the sex symbol at the time was, I'm sure high school Jack had a poster of her in his room.

Hmm, do you think he'd be a Gidget/Sally Field kinda guy?

Would Annette Funachello (sp?) be too old for him? Probably...maybe?

Annette, in addition to appearing in beach movies with Frankie Avalon, was also an original Mousketeer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mickey_Mouse_Club).

*begins humming*

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

Well, Gidget was played by Sally Field in the 1965 tv show, but another actress in the movies, apparently. It's before my time too.

But, Annette! She was one of the original mouseketeers! Every boy of a certain age growing up...and watching Annette grow up on that show developed a crush on her. (My dad sure had one, but he's "older" than "Jack"). Yeah, her birthdate is 1942, but possibly the beach movies with her older and Jack as younger teen. As a teen she was in surfing movies with Frankie Avalon.

I remember her as a grown up on the 70s Wonderful World of Disney and the old mousketeer black and white footage. Oh yeah, and the Skippy Peanut Butter commercials. She has a Carter-like smile (if you think they ship that way. o:-) and Mary Steenbergen like hair.)

*blinks* You never heard of Gidget? Dooood! Does SKY channel still show old shows? Gidget was one of my faves lol. And it's Sally Field who played her (she also did The Flying Nun).

Aren't you in the UK? I thought you were lol

Back in the day they did. I got SKY in the Netherlands, growing up. Uhm, so we're talking about 20 years ago? Give or take lol (oh lord, I feel old now -_-). Did not realize SKY was no longer free lol.
But it's from SKY that I learned about DJ Kat, The Monkees, I Dream Of Jeannie, The Addams Family, Gidget and a whole slew of other old shows. I loved it! 4-7 pm was all mine lol. Back to back oldies ^_^. And Saturday mornings was DJ Kat with Linda DeMol (I stopped watching after she left. It wasn't the same. Especially not when the voice for DJ changed, too)

Hmmm. One of the Hepburns perhaps? Probably not Marilyn Monroe (though he probably liked looking at her).

Someone feisty with brains and competence...

So, I might have just called my dad - he's only a couple years older than Jack would be - and asked him who he had a crush on as a teenager. Because he and Jack are somewhat alike in personality, especially in terms of sense of humor and taste in women. He said Katherine Ross, definitely.

And despite my telling him that he didn't need to, he has since called me back to add Janet Lennon (of the Lennon sisters) to the list. Apparently they were on the Lawrence Welk show? I'm not sure how Jack would have felt about Lawrence Welk, though.

What about Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in the Avengers? She was smart and sexy and British! It was broadcast in the USA beginning in 1966.

Star Trek premiered in 1967, but I don't think Jack would like Uhura.

Sean Connery was playing James Bond in the movies in the 60s. Jack could have liked a 'Bond' girl.

Twiggy was big in 1967, and she had Carter-and-Mary-Steenburgen-like big blue eyes. Her lack of uh...shape might have been a sticking point for a teenage boy, especially if he were a breast man, er, boy. In that respect the actress who played Barbara Gordon/Batgirl would have been a better choice, and she also had rather striking eyes. Julie Newmar (Catwoman from the TV Batman series) also had gorgeous eyes and was tall, blonde, and shapely.

Persuant to this whole conversation, you should check out this:
http://a-loquita.livejournal.com/38482.html#cutid1

I'm not pimping my comment fic (well, maybe just a LITTLE!), but a.loquita's Halloween fic is all about an early Jack crush.

Was googling some of these people (before my time, I'm afraid), and found this http://www.welkmusicalfamily.com/LennonSisters.jpg picture of the Lennon Sisters.... perhaps spiking a teenager's interest in military service?

I can totally see the Jeannie thing though... Or, the girl next door. Hmmm.