Even international political summits don’t generate as much activity as Elvis Week will on the 20th anniversary of Presley’s death.
You could attend the several conferences in town and run out of time for anything else. Elvis 20/20: Past and Future, a six-day convergence of high and low thinking on the King at the Memphis College […]
Elvis pervades today’s popular films
Elvis made 33 movies during his lifetime, from Love Me Tender (1956) to Elvis on Tour (1972).
But death hasn’t stopped the King from making his presence known in the nation’s movie theaters.
If anything, the Grim Reaper has boosted Elvis’s movie career as well as his record sales. Presley, in fact, […]
The latest Elvis record is not the kind you download. If you were in Memphis, you knew you weren’t on Lonely Street at all those sold-out events. But Graceland spokesman Kevin Kern says the official attendance figure for the week was 75,000. Even in the sweltering heat, 55,000 took part in the candlelight vigil. “The […]
Elvis Presley had seen her in a TV sitcom and suggested her for a role in a 1964 movie in which he would tell her she was “as purty as a little ol’ speckled pup.”
The movie was “Kissin’ Cousins,” in which Elvis played a dual role as an Army officer and as the officer’s hillbilly […]
Elvis often rented the old Memphian Theatre, now the site of Playhouse on the Square, for private screenings of movies.
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