Elvis


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Alan Fortas and Alanna Nash present this close-up and unguarded portrait of Elvis.




Elvis


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A comprehensive guide to Elvis' career on film and TV. It analyzes his every celluloid appearance, including 33 films, documentaries, TV appearances, tributes, biopics and retrospectives. Accompanying this study is a biography and a complete filmography.




Elvis Films FAQ


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(FAQ). If Elvis Presley had not wanted to be a movie star, he would never have single-handedly revolutionized popular culture. Yet this aspect of his phenomenal career has been much maligned and misunderstood partly because the King himself once referred to his 33 movies as a rut he had got stuck in just off Hollywood Boulevard. Elvis Films FAQ explores his best and worst moments as an actor, analyzes the bizarre autobiographical detail that runs through so many of his films, and reflects on what it must be like to be idolized by millions around the world yet have to make a living singing about dogs, chambers of commerce, and fatally naive shrimps. Elvis's Hollywood years are full of mystery, and Elvis Films FAQ covers them all! Which of his own movies did he actually like? What films did he wish he could have made? Why didn't he have an acting coach? When will Quentin Tarantino stop alluding to him in his movies? And was Clambake really the catalyst for his marriage to Priscilla? Elvis Films FAQ explains everything you want to know about the whys and wherefores of the singer-actor's bizarre celluloid odyssey; or, as Elvis said, "I saw the movie and I was the hero of the movie."




Elvis in Hollywood


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Elvis, from Memphis to Hollywood


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This work is about the life of the King of Rock-and-Roll through the eyes of a friend and former member of Elvis's Memphis Mafia, Alan Fortas, nephew of Associate Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, who spent nearly 12 years close to Elvis from 1957 into the late 1960s, and was on-stage with Elvis at his televised 1968 Singer Comeback Special. His fond recollections of the most interesting and turbulent period in Presley's life and career aim to provide personal insight, and historical perspective.




Elvis Presley in Hollywood


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Elvis Through the Ages


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From the beginning of his career to his death as a cultural, icon Elvis Presley sang and enchanted millions of people. Publicity photos and behind-the-scenes shots from the Hollywood Photo Archives include scores of long- forgotten or abandoned images in neglected studio archives. This book collects 100 of the rarest of the rare, seldom previously seen images of his career. For the Elvis fans who think that they have seen it all, this book will provide a new lens on a beloved American superstar.




Hollywood Lights, Nashville Nights


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Stand up in the corn if you remember the country music TV show, Hee Haw! Read all about it from two of the lovely ladies of the cornfield.




Elvis in Hollywood


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A collection of 100 black and white photographs with text and captions by Steve Pond. On 1 April 1956 Elvis Presley, 21 years old, came to Hollywood. When Love Me Tender, his first movie, was released in November of that year, screaming fans mobbed the theatres. Now, over 30 years later, a collection of negatives have been unearthed at the Michael Ochs archives in California. Taken during the filming of Love Me Tender, these photographs show Elvis as we like to remember him - the bad boy of 50s rock and roll. These were the days before Hollywood had exploited him as a screen commodity, the days when, for Elvis, everything seemed possible.