BLUE HAWAII– Postcard production and… the beginning of the Presley formula-(part 8) “Elvis Presley – Blue Hawaii”… The slowly ending second day of work on the songs for “Blue Hawaii” was crowned by two recordings. Based on the old (the…
Kissin’ Cousins – the double role of Elvis Presley In 1962, Elvis Presley’s manager, “Colonel” Tom Parker, promised in interviews that his protégé would only appear in two films within a year. However, his promises soon faded, and at the…
BLUE HAWAII– Postcard production and… the beginning of the Presley formula-(part 7) “Elvis Presley – Blue Hawaii”… In an interview many years ago (for the For Elvis CD Collector website), Roy C. Bennett, co-writer of the next song recorded that…
BLUE HAWAII– Postcard production and… the beginning of the Presley formula-(part 6) Elvis Presley “Blue Hawaii”… Unlike “Aloha Oe,” “Ku-UI-Po,” the next ballad recorded that day, didn’t have quite the same history. It was a new song after “Hawaiian Sunset,”…
BLUE HAWAII– Postcard production and… the beginning of the Presley formula- (part 5) Hawaiian Sunset “You know , it’s about a guy who just got out of the army (interesting, right?) and then he falls in love with a bunch of…
BLUE HAWAII– Postcard production and… the beginning of the Presley formula-(part 4) Elvis Presley Blue Hawaii… In addition to the aforementioned actresses, a small cameo in Presley’s new film was also played by the then twenty-two-year-old Miss Arizona of 1959,…
BLUE HAWAII – A postcard production and… the beginning of the Presley formula Angela Lansbury (or rather Angela Brigid Lansbury, because that was her full name) was feeling completely different emotions. The London-born, distinguished film, stage and television actress who…
ELVIS PRESLEY – BLUE HAWAII– A postcard production and… the beginning of the Presley formula- “Elvis Presley Blue Hawaii”… The film was originally supposed to be made as part of an agreement with Paramount Pictures that had been in effect…
BLUE HAWAII– A postcard production and… the beginning of the Presley formula- Elvis Presley “Blue Hawaii”… “If Elvis only gets the right script and director to work with, he could become a really great dramatic actor ,” said Hope Lange, Presley’s…
Baz Luhrmann Announces New Film Featuring Unreleased Footage From ‘TTWII’ and ‘On Tour’ Baz Luhrmann Announces New Film About Elvis… Without a doubt, this is the most electrifying news of recent hours! Australian director Baz Luhrmann, the same one who…
WILD IN THE COUNTRY– Elvis Presley’s last dramatic role –(Part 11, the last) The songs from the film, in accordance with earlier arrangements and promises made by Colonel Parker to 20th Century Fox, began to appear successively from the beginning…
WILD IN THE COUNTRY– Elvis Presley’s Last Dramatic Role –(Part 10) Wild In The Country “I think everyone working on that movie thought, ‘Our movie is so much better than all the other Presley movies ,’” Millie Perkins said in an…
