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=== Real Life ===

* Frank Sinatra. ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoons featuring him frequently had the members of his audience fainting, sighing "Oh Frankie!" in ecstasy, going into seizures, or screaming. They always chased after him in huge crowds once he was done performing.

** Arguably a subversion: after his death it was revealed that many of the earlier swooning women were actually [[~~Astroturfing~~|actresses paid by his publicist]] to hype up his image before he was really famous.

** Arguably a subversion: after his death it was revealed that many of the earlier swooning women were actually [[Astroturf|actresses paid by his publicist]] to hype up his image before he was really famous.

** More or less the same things happened to [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]]. Including the paying of actresses. Their publicists must have known each other.

* It has been claimed that poet/artist/songwriter/[[Renaissance Man]] [[Shel Silverstein]] had to beat the ladies off with sticks. Not a perfect example, as he wasn't at all "innocent" about it.