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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Elvis Movie Publicity Photos
While assembling photos for the ElvisBlog series 50th Anniversary Movie Pictorials, I was pleased to find many interesting PR shots for Elvis? movies. Most of them will be featured in the photo essays for each movie, but there are enough publicity shots that a few can be borrowed for this article without being missed.
Girls, Girls, Girls:
This is one of the more clever publicity photos for an Elvis movie. Laurel Goodwin (left) and Donna Douglas (right) both posed for other PR shots alone with Elvis, some innocent, some more provocative. We will look at them in 2012 when the 50th anniversary of Girls, Girls, Girls rolls around.
Tickle Me:
Here is a variation of the ropes around Elvis theme. This time his co-star Jocelyn Lane is tied up with Elvis. The other four good-looking women are part of the bevy of unnamed lovelies that appear in numerous scenes throughout the movie. Diligent research has determined that Tickle Me is one of the top three Elvis movies for the most hot babes. The other two are Clambake and Paradise Hawaiian Style.
King Creole:
This obviously posed picture had to be one Elvis enjoyed making. The girls kissing him are his two love interests in the film: Delores Hart (left), the sweet soda-fountain girl, and Carolyn Jones, the alcoholic mob-boss kept woman. The two girls who are not kissing Elvis had lesser roles as Elvis? sister and a stripper with the interesting name Forty Nina.
G.I. Blues:
Last October we took a look at Elvis? fifth movie in our 50th Anniversary photo essay. This included a couple of press photos, and now I have discovered two more of Elvis and co-star Juliet Prowse.
I?m not sure why they don?t just release actual shots from the movies. You good Elvis fans know these scenes never happened on the film.
Flaming Star:
When I did the 50th anniversary photo spread on Flaming Star, it included several publicity pictures of Elvis and co-star Barbara Eden. They all showed them in close physical contact, even though this never happened in the movie. Eden actually played the girlfriend of the brother of Elvis? character. Here are two of these photos.
Now, yet another pose from this photo shoot has surfaced on the internet. We can imagine Elvis was more than willing to oblige the requests for as many poses with Barbara Eden as the photographer wanted.
More Flaming Star:
Our 50th anniversary photo essay also looked at the many variations of Andy Warhol?s multiple-Elvis lithographs based on a promotional photo for the movie.
The picture below is a shot from Cirque du Soleil -- a huge background image of Elvis in cowboy garb and aiming a gun. It is the third reincarnation of the publicity shot. I like the way they have descending sizes. To my knowledge, Warhol never tried any of that.
Jailhouse Rock:
I?m not sure if this was a publicity shot or just a candid photo of Elvis and his co-stars goofing around on the set. Either way, everyone seems to be enjoying it. On Elvis? right arm is Judy Tyler, his business partner and love interest in the movie. The blond is Jennifer Holden, who played an actress in a movie Elvis? character was filming. Do you remember how she couldn?t stand him until the kissing scene started, and then the two of them developed a severe case of lip lock. There are some more great publicity pictures and candid shots on the set that we will look at in the 55th anniversary pictorial of Jailhouse Rock in 2012. The Elvisblog series of movie photo essays started too late to feature Elvis? first four movies on their 50th Anniversary.
Wild in the Country:
Here?s the best example yet of press releases of shots that didn?t occur in an Elvis movie. Recently we did the 50th anniversary photo essay on Wild in the Country. Here are two publicity photos that promoted the movie, and we can be pretty sure Elvis didn?t mind posing for them.
Even though there was a perfectly good shot of Elvis Kissing Tuesday Weld in the movie, he had to kiss her at least two more times for the PR pictures. Boy, what a tough job. Making movies certainly had its perks for Elvis.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Moving Elvis Mr. Potato Head Parts Around
I?ve done two previous articles on the Elvis Mr. Potato Head figures. The first was favorable, and that resulted in me getting an e-mail thank you message from from Dean Gorby of PPW Toys, the company that makes the Elvis Mr. Potato Heads for Hasbro. I wrote back and asked if I could get some in-house photos of the Elvis Live, as the first model was called.
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What?s in a Name? Tips on Avoiding Probate
Robin S. Davis, CFP� asked: Most of us remember when Elvis Presley, “The King:, died in 1977. At that time his estate was worth an estimated 10 million dollars. Unfortunately, due to probate fees, legal fees, and estate taxes the amount was reduced to a paltry $3 minnion. This could have been avoided with the [...]
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Sunday, June 12, 2011
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Tractors on the Mind
Our ?today in history? a couple of days ago was a remembrance back to Elvis getting his tractor stuck in the mud back in ?57 when he first purchased Graceland. Today a news item appears about yet another tractor that … Continue reading 
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Friday, June 10, 2011
ElvisBlog News -- 4/28/11
Since I started ElvisBlog back in 2005, I have tried to consistently post a new article each weekend. Blog tutorials all declared that a regular schedule was necessary to keep readers happy and coming back. During the first six years, the only time I missed a post was when my wife had open-heart surgery in 2009. Well, now it has happened twice.
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Thursday, June 9, 2011
Elvis Archaeological Finds Revealed
In 2008, famous antiquities collector Graham Geddes of Melbourne, Australia, revealed his discovery of a 1,800-year-old marble bust that looked like Elvis Presley.
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
50th Anniversary Movie Pictorials: Wild in the Country - 1961
Wild in the Country was released fifty years ago in June 1961. It was Elvis? seventh film and has been identified by many as his last shot at becoming a serious dramatic actor. After his return from the Army in 1960, his first movie was the musical romp G.I. Blues. It was very successful at the box office. Next was Flaming Star, an intense western where Elvis and some of his family are killed off. It did not do nearly as well commercially. The same was true for Wild in the Country, another straight dramatic role. When Elvis returned to light-hearted romantic comedy with lots of music in his next movie Blue Hawaii, it?s phenomenal success sealed his future in Hollywood.
One interesting note about Wild in the Country is that Elvis shared screen time with three beautiful love interests. There was Tuesday Weld as the sexy teenager who was hot for Elvis. The pivotal character in Elvis? emotional growth in the movie was slightly older Hope Lange as a psychologist. When problems arose with either of these two, Elvis would seek comfort with his old girlfriend Millie Perkins.
Movie Posters:
Lobby Cards:
Scenes from the Movie:
Elvis and Tuesday Weld Elvis and Millie Perkins
Elvis and Hope Lange
Down Time on the Set:
Foreign Posters:
German Poster Spanish Poster
British Poster
Elvis Kissing His Co-Stars:
Elvis and Tuesday Weld in a Garage
Elvis and Millie Perkins at her Dad?s Farm
Elvis and Hope Lange in a Motel
Trivia:
Tuesday Weld was just seventeen when she played opposite Elvis in Wild in the Country. Twenty-seven years later she got to be Elvis? love interest again in Heartbreak Hotel. This delightful movie came out in 1988, and it is the fictional story of a teenage boy who kidnaps Elvis to bring a bit of joy to his troubled mother, a lifetime fan of the King. David Keith plays Elvis, and does a more realistic job than all the actors who portrayed him in the bio-films.
One interesting scene in Heartbreak Hotel pays homage to a similar one in Wild in the Country. This time, Tuesday Weld sprays the hose on Elvis, rather than the reverse as in the original.
There is also an almost exact repeat of a scene from another Elvis movie. Do you remember in Loving You when a surly punk goads Elvis into singing ?Mean Woman Blues,? and then starts a fight? Elvis punches him around some, and then decks him into the jukebox. It?s a fun scene and worthy of seeing twice.
Elvis didn?t end up with Tuesday Weld in Wild in the Country, and he didn?t exactly end up with her in Heartbreak Hotel. He had to leave to continue his demanding concert schedule, but Tuesday told him there would always be a room waiting for him at her home. Somehow, you knew Elvis would be back.
� 2011 Philip R Arnold, Original Elvis Blogmeister All Rights Reserved www.ElvisBlog.net
Elvis, Elvis Presley, and Graceland are registered trademarks of Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc.
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