"Love Me Tender (film) Love Me Tender is a 1956 American black-and-white CinemaScope motion picture directed by Robert D. Webb, and released by 20th Century Fox on November 15, 1956. The film, named after the song, stars Richard Egan, Debra Paget, and Elvis Presley in his acting debut. It is in the Western genre with musical numbers. As Presley's movie debut, it was the only time in his acting career that he did not receive top billing. ""Love Me Tender"" was originally to be titled ""The Reno Brothers"", but when advanced sales of Presley's ""Love Me Tender"" single passed one"
"in a musical film. This was the only acting award that he received during his film career. Tickle Me Tickle Me is a 1965 American musical comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Elvis Presley as a champion rodeo bull-rider and bronco-buster. Presley won a 1966 Golden Laurel Award as best male actor in a musical film for this role. It is the only Elvis film released by Allied Artists Pictures and saved the studio from financial collapse, ""Tickle Me"" helping to avert bankruptcy thanks to a song from its recycled soundtrack, ""(Such an) Easy Question"", which was a"
"three number one hits with ""Too Much"", ""All Shook Up"", and ""(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear"". His second film, ""Loving You"", opened on July 30 to box office success. His Christmas album was released on October 15 and his third film, ""Jailhouse Rock"", opened on October 17. On December 20, Presley received his draft notice. He was granted a deferment so he could finish the forthcoming film ""King Creole"", which had already received an investment of $350,000 from Paramount Pictures and producer Hal Wallis. At the beginning of 1958, Presley's single ""Don't"" topped the charts. Presley was inducted into"
"performed in one single unedited shot—the only known example of such a technique in Presley's movie career. The film grossed $9,442,967 at the box office, earning $5 million in U.S. theatrical rentals. For his role in ""Viva Las Vegas"", Elvis Presley received a third place prize 1965 Laurel Award for best male performance in a musical film. ""Viva Las Vegas"" also received the 1965 Laurel Award for runner-up in the category of the best musical of 1964. Ann-Margret was praised for her on screen chemistry with Elvis, as she nearly stole the film from him. Some critics in 1964 were"
"as a ""better-than-average Elvis Presley vehicle"" and concluded that ""the main attraction is Elvis singing his rock 'n' roll songs, including the title tune."" Also assigning 3 stars (out of 5), ""The Motion Picture Guide"" opined """"Loving You"" is one of Presley's better films. He gives a fine performance, both in the great concert scenes and in the dramatic ones; Hal Kanter directs with vigor"". Loving You (1957 film) Loving You is a 1957 American Technicolor musical drama structured as Elvis Presley's first starring film vehicle, following his debut the previous year in a supporting role in the black-and-white film,"
"With increased concerns over privacy and security, ""Graceland"" was bought in 1957, a mansion with several acres of land. This was Presley's primary residence until his death. Presley's record sales grew quickly throughout the late 1950s, with hits like ""All Shook Up"" and ""(Let me Be Your) Teddy Bear."" ""Jailhouse Rock"", ""Loving You"" (both 1957) and ""King Creole"" (1958) were released and are regarded as the best of his early films. However, critics were not impressed—very few authoritative voices were complimentary. In response, it has been claimed that while ""Elvis’s success as a singer and movie star dramatically increased his"
"Tickle Me Tickle Me is a 1965 American musical comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Elvis Presley as a champion rodeo bull-rider and bronco-buster. Presley won a 1966 Golden Laurel Award as best male actor in a musical film for this role. It is the only Elvis film released by Allied Artists Pictures and saved the studio from financial collapse, ""Tickle Me"" helping to avert bankruptcy thanks to a song from its recycled soundtrack, ""(Such an) Easy Question"", which was a Top 40 hit in the United States, peaking at #11 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and reaching"
"Elvis (1979 film) Elvis is a 1979 American made-for-television biographical film directed by John Carpenter, and starring Kurt Russell as Elvis Presley, originally aired on ABC. It marks the last role on television for Russell, and the first collaboration between him and Carpenter. After its success on television in the United States, ""Elvis"" was released theatrically throughout Europe. It was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Made for Television, and for three Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Russell. The story follows the life and career of rock"
"25 that also allowed him to make films with other studios. His feature debut was in ""Love Me Tender"" for 20th Century Fox, with the commercial success of the soundtrack EP being a bellwether for the next three Presley films. ""Loving You"", ""Jailhouse Rock"" and ""King Creole"" were dramatic storylines written around Presley in the role of a musical entertainer. He would later state that ""King Creole"" was his favorite of all his films. ""Flaming Star"" and ""Wild in the Country"" were rarities in his career, non-musicals focused on dramatic storylines. According to music historian Peter Guralnick, the sluggish financial"
"only Presley film distributed by National General Pictures. The film made a profit but was not a runaway success, and remains one of Presley's least-seen films despite being regarded among his best in terms of a 'straight' (non-musical) acting performance. Jess Wade, a former member of a gang of outlaws led by Vince Hackett, was led to believe that an old flame, Tracy Winters, wanted to meet him in a seedy Mexican saloon. Jess saw Billy Roy Hackett, Vince's younger brother, summoning Vince and the other members of the gang into the saloon, and realized he was being set up."
"The King"", and ""Love Me Tender: The Birth & Boom of the Elvis Hit"". Also part of the disc are original trailers for ""Love Me Tender"", ""Flaming Star"" and ""Wild in the Country"". Love Me Tender (film) Love Me Tender is a 1956 American black-and-white CinemaScope motion picture directed by Robert D. Webb, and released by 20th Century Fox on November 15, 1956. The film, named after the song, stars Richard Egan, Debra Paget, and Elvis Presley in his acting debut. It is in the Western genre with musical numbers. As Presley's movie debut, it was the only time in"
"June 1961. His manager, Colonel Tom Parker, decided to shift the focus of Presley's career to movie-making, and stopped him touring. The films were low-budget, formulaic comedies. Their releases were successful at the box office, while the resulting albums sold well. Presley attempted to move into more dramatic roles, trying to reduce the prominence of musical numbers to center on his acting with ""Flaming Star"" (1960) and ""Wild in the Country"" (1961). Both releases flopped, and by 1964 Parker decided to limit all recordings exclusively to movie soundtracks. Parker then set the Presley formula: the films would promote album releases,"
"Elvis Presley, and Ray Charles. The film premiered in October 1963 at the Gramercy Arts Theater in New York City. When the film was screened at an art theater in Los Angeles, it was protested by the American Nazi Party on the basis that it insulted their flag. The police were ultimately called to the site and arrested the theater manager for public obscenity and canceled the film's run. The case went to the California Supreme Court, where the case was settled in Anger's favor. Anger explained in an interview: ""Scorpio Rising"" is considered by some to be the first"
"successful run of seventeen movies together, but again the idea was shelved. On April 10, Presley confidently announced during a radio interview that his debut feature would be ""The Rainmaker"" with Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn. However, despite this belief, and due to Wallis being unable to find a project ""good enough for the debut of Elvis Presley"", he was loaned out to ""20th Century Fox"" on August 13 and began work on ""Love Me Tender"" on August 22. Presley's role had originally been turned down by both Jeffrey Hunter and Robert Wagner because the part was too small, but"
"Elvis Presley on film and television Elvis Presley (1935–1977) was an American entertainer who achieved initial success as a singer, expressing an early career goal of following in the footsteps of his role models James Dean and Marlon Brando to become a top dramatic actor. His manager Colonel Tom Parker's persistent lobbying of William Morris Agency president Abe Lastfogel for a Presley screen test paid off on March 26, 1956, when the singer auditioned at Paramount for a supporting role in ""The Rainmaker"". Although not chosen for the part, he signed a contract with Paramount producer Hal Wallis on April"
"often reported that Presley recorded ""Leave My Woman Alone"" for the film, but only an instrumental backing was ever recorded; Presley never recorded a vocal for the song. Seven selections were recorded for the film; the song ""She's A Machine"" was not used in the movie, but would be released on ""Elvis Sings Flaming Star"" the following year. The remaining six appeared on an extended play single released to coincide with the March 1967 premiere of the film. It failed to chart on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, and sold fewer than 30,000 units total. Given that the EP format was"
"""The Lady Loves Me"" made it into the final film and none of them were commercially released until years after Presley's death, due to concerns by Colonel Tom Parker that Ann-Margret's presence threatened to overshadow Elvis. Ann-Margret introduced Presley to David Winters, whom she recommended as a choreographer for their film. ""Viva Las Vegas"" was Winters' first feature film choreography job and was his first of four movies with Presley, and his first of five films, including ""Kitten with a Whip"" (1964), ""Bus Riley's Back in Town"" (1965), ""Made in Paris"" (1966), and ""The Swinger"" (1966), and two TV specials"
"of a number of young musicians, including the Four Lads, Bobby Darin, and Fats Domino. Nicknamed ""The Pied Piper of Cleveland"", a 1955 musical documentary film was made about him titled ""The Pied Piper of Cleveland: A Day in the Life of a Famous Disc Jockey"". The film includes a Cleveland concert at Brooklyn High School on October 20, 1955 featuring Pat Boone and Bill Haley & His Comets with Elvis Presley as the opening act. It is the first commercial film footage of a Presley performance but has never been released. Curiously enough, Randle almost did not survive early"
"Double Trouble (1967 film) Double Trouble is a 1967 American musical film starring Elvis Presley. The comedic plot concerns an American singer who crosses paths with criminals in Europe. The movie was #58 on the year-end list of the top-grossing films of 1967. Elvis was paid $750,000 plus 40% of the profits. Howard Thompson of ""The New York Times"" called the film ""pretty fair and far better than the last three Presley clinkers,"" adding, ""The studio-photographed action, most of it very silly, has been blended rather neatly with the authentic backgrounds. At least the picture moves. Furthermore, the good tunes"
"have commonly used the star vehicle format to capitalize on the popularity of their performer. Among the earliest examples is ""The Jazz Singer"" (1927), which drew on the popularity of Al Jolson. Elvis Presley was perhaps the most prolific star vehicle performer, featured in 25 films between 1956 and 1969. While Presley's films were a commercial success, they mostly failed to attract critical acclaim, being made primarily as a platform for his musical performances. On the other hand, Frank Sinatra is noted as a performer whose filmography strengthened his musical popularity and critical credibility. Although his first leading-role film, ""Meet"
"connection to the music business was being weakened, and he felt depressed and alienated as the quality of his films deteriorated. During a five-year span—1964 through 1968—Presley had only one top-ten hit: ""Crying in the Chapel"" (1965), a gospel number recorded in 1960. While the 1964 release ""Viva Las Vegas"" (1965) enjoyed success, the follow-up films saw a progressive decline. By 1967, the difficulty of negotiating with Parker, and the poor performance of the films, led Wallis to opt out of his contract with Presley. In October 1967, Parker approached West Coast vice president of NBC, Tom Sarnoff. Parker proposed"
"Loving You (1957 film) Loving You is a 1957 American Technicolor musical drama structured as Elvis Presley's first starring film vehicle, following his debut the previous year in a supporting role in the black-and-white film, ""Love Me Tender"". Directed by Hal Kanter, the cast is completed by Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey, and Dolores Hart in her movie debut. The storyline, about a delivery man who is discovered by a music publicist and a country–western musician who want to promote the talented newcomer, was scripted by Herbert Baker and Hal Kanter, based on the short story ""A Call from Mitch Miller."""
"Stop"", ""Yoga Is as Yoga Does"" in a duet with Elsa Lanchester, and ""The Love Machine"". The film would be the first starring Elvis Presley that had a ballad-free soundtrack since his 1956 film debut, ""Love Me Tender"". Despite this, only 30,000 copies were sold, making it the worst selling record that Elvis ever released for RCA Victor. Paramount originally intended to make a movie called ""Easy Come Easy Go"" starring Jan and Dean with director Barry Shear but it was cancelled when the stars and several crew were injured in a train crash. The studio decided to use the"
"Ballet. The water-skiing and Corvette-driving double for Presley was Artie Warren. (Warren was then employed at Leo Benz's Ski School for water skiers.) After numerous delays, principal photography on ""Clambake"" began on March 22, 1967. As Presley began the last decade of his life, ""Clambake"" was the last film for which he was able to demand and receive a salary of $1 million. The relative lackluster box-office performance of this movie, combined with his desire to do more serious, less commercial films, meant that studios were no longer willing to guarantee him a seven-figure paycheck for his performance. In her"
"and ""Viva Las Vegas"" faring even worse at #29. Released during Beatlemania and the beginning of the British invasion, none of the music made an impact on the new direction in which popular music was moving. Even the most jazzed-infused song of Presley's illustrious career, ""I Need Somebody to Lean On"", went practically unnoticed. North American box office receipts of $9,442,967 were markedly lower than The Beatles' first motion picture, ""A Hard Day's Night"", which was released two months later worldwide, earning $12,300,000 in North America (£5,125,000 U.K). In 1993, ""Viva Las Vegas"" was released as part of the RCA"
"he had during the first ten years of his career. But Elvis had little enthusiasm at this juncture for more soundtrack sessions, the project already in jeopardy before it started. The sessions turned out a fiasco; of the eight songs recorded, two had been edited out of the film, and even with ""How Can You Lose What You Never Had"" restored to the soundtrack, that left an album of merely seven songs. The album would prove to be a turning point in Presley's career. After many years of churning out forgettable songs for forgettable films, he was clearly past his"
"church where Dr. Carpenter is singing to pray for guidance to make her choice. Uncredited Cast: By 1969, Presley's future in Hollywood was under threat. Although still financially successful, mainly due to the ""make 'em quick, make 'em cheap"" attitude of Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker, Presley's films had been making less profit in recent years. When Parker had struggled to find any studio willing to pay Presley's usual $1 million fee, he struck a deal with NBC to produce one feature film, and a TV Special entitled 'Elvis'. NBC would pay Presley $1.25 million for both features, and Parker"
"Viva Las Vegas (EP) Viva Las Vegas is an EP by American singer Elvis Presley, containing four songs from the 1964 motion picture, ""Viva Las Vegas"". It was released by RCA Victor in May 1964 to coincide with the film's premiere. The soundtrack EP made the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 at #92, the lowest-charting release of Presley's career to this point. RCA had not released a Presley EP single in two years; given that it was a dying format, and given the disappointing chart performance of ""Viva Las Vegas"", the company would only issue two more for the remainder of Presley's"
"York, hosted this time by its namesake, on October 28. After the performance, crowds in Nashville and St. Louis burned him in effigy. His first motion picture, ""Love Me Tender"", was released on November 21. Though he was not top billed, the film's original title—""The Reno Brothers""—was changed to capitalize on his latest number one record: ""Love Me Tender"" had hit the top of the charts earlier that month. To further take advantage of Presley's popularity, four musical numbers were added to what was originally a straight acting role. The film was panned by the critics but did very well"
"American singer Elvis Presley. His first role in a major picture was in the 1990 film ""Ultrà"", directed by Ricky Tognazzi. Memphis won the award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of ""Red"" at the European Film Awards. He followed with roles in ""Pugni di rabbia"", ""La scorta"" and ""Il branco"". Memphis received national popularity with his interpretation of the compassionate ""Inspector Mauro Belli"" in Mediaset's Canale 5 television police drama series ""Distretto di Polizia"" ('Police District'), which aired for eight seasons from 26 September 2000 to November 2009. His character left the series in the sixth season of"
"In an ominous sign of things to come, it only made it to number 33 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, the lowest charting single of Presley's career to date. Elvis recorded ""Wisdom of the Ages"" on February 24, 1965 at RCA studios. It featured as a bonus track on the soundtrack album, along with ""Animal Instinct"", but did not feature in the film itself. The Jordanaires sang backing vocals. The film and its soundtrack are widely considered one of the lowest points of Presley's career. The song progresses from F major to B flat major, to D minor to E"
"Charro! Charro! is a 1969 American western film starring Elvis Presley shot on location at Apacheland Movie Ranch and Old Tucson Studios in Arizona. Uniquely, Presley did not sing on-screen, and the film featured no songs at all except for the main title theme, which was played over the opening credits. It was also the only movie in which Presley wore a beard. The film was novelized by Harry Whittington. Ina Balin, Victor French, Barbara Werle, and Solomon Sturges co-starred. It was the final film for director Charles Marquis Warren who also produced and wrote it. It was also the"
"albums were ranked number one on the pop charts, and a few of his most popular songs came from his films, such as ""Can't Help Falling in Love"" (1961) and ""Return to Sender"" (1962). (""Viva Las Vegas"", the title track to the 1964 film, was a minor hit as a B-side, and became truly popular only later.) But, as with artistic merit, the commercial returns steadily diminished. During a five-year span—1964 through 1968—Presley had only one top-ten hit: ""Crying in the Chapel"" (1965), a gospel number recorded back in 1960. As for non-film albums, between the June 1962 release of"