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The Elvis Movies

Author : James L. Neibaur
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442230746
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Elvis Movies written by James L. Neibaur and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elvis Presley’s stature as the “King of Rock and Roll” will never be challenged. Between his first RCA hit single in 1956—the number-one smash “Heartbreak Hotel”—and his death in 1977, Elvis amassed more than 100 hits on the music charts. Presley’s dominance on the music chart was paralleled only by the singer’s motion picture career. Between 1956 and 1969, Elvis appeared in more than thirty films, further cementing his place as one of the most popular entertainers of the twentieth century. While there have been countless books that explore the real Elvis tucked beneath layers of showbiz mythology, such volumes often dismiss his motion picture career as insignificant or overlook his onscreen work entirely. In The Elvis Movies, James L. Neibaur looks at the thirty-one features that Presley made, from Love Me Tender in 1956 to Change of Habit in 1969. Most of these were star vehicles tailor-made for his image. As Neibaur points out, Elvis had a real interest in being a good actor, but his initial promise was soon thwarted by anti-creative decisions that sold a packaged version of the singer. Despite lapsing into a predictable formula of lightweight musicals, Elvis Presley’s star power ensured that the films became box office successes. Neibaur examines each film, providing information about their production and offering assessments about their value in general, as well as their place in the Presley canon. Additional details include behind-the-scenes personnel, costars, DVD availability, and featured hit songs. An entertaining and informative look at an often underrated aspect of the singer’s career, The Elvis Movies offers readers insight into his films. This volume will be a welcome resource to fans of the singer who want to know more about the King and his successful ventures on the big screen.

Elvis Films FAQ

Author : Paul Simpson
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1480366897
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Elvis Films FAQ written by Paul Simpson and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (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

Author : Steve Zmijewsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Elvis written by Steve Zmijewsky and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated introduction to the career of American singer Elvis Presley.

Elvis Presley

Author : Steve Templeton
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570722325
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Elvis Presley written by Steve Templeton and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of movie posters that spans Elvis' film career. This work includes background information about each movie, along with specific information about each poster style and pricing.

Elvis! Elvis! Elvis!

Author : Peter Guttmacher
Publisher : Friedman-Fairfax
ISBN 13 : 9781567995305
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Elvis! Elvis! Elvis! written by Peter Guttmacher and published by Friedman-Fairfax. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated throughout with movie posters, film stills, and candid behind-the-scenes photos of the King, this work is a blockbuster celebration of Elvis Presley's movies. It includes a full description of each of Elvis's movies, quotes from some of the King's most famous co-stars, excerpts from critics' reviews of many of his films, tales of his affairs with some of the most desirable women in the world, and a CD packed with 15 of his greatest soundtrack recordings. 150 illustrations, many in color.

Elvis Presley in the Movies

Author : Timothy Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781435118553
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Elvis Presley in the Movies written by Timothy Knight and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the world he was the King of Rock and Roll, but Elvis Presley was also one of the top-10 movie stars of his era. Thirty-one of his films are included in this dazzling retrospective by film critic Timothy Knight, who practically brings you into the theater as he reveals all the excitement and color of some of the most rockin' movies ever made.

A Stone for Danny Fisher

Author : Harold Robbins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416565442
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book A Stone for Danny Fisher written by Harold Robbins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a teenager, Danny Fisher had all he ever wanted -- a dog, a grown-up summer job, flirtatious relationships with older women -- and a talent for ruthless boxing that quickly made him a star in the amateur sporting world. But when Danny's family falls on hard times, moving from their comfortable home in Brooklyn to Manhattan's squalid Lower East Side, he is forced to leave his carefree childhood behind. Facing poverty and daily encounters with his violent, anti-Semitic neighbors, Danny must fight both inside and outside the ring just to survive. As his boxing becomes legendary in the city's seedy underworld, packed with wiseguys and loose women, everyone seems to want a hand in Danny's success. Robbins's colorful, fast-talking characters evoke the rough streets of Depression-era New York City. Ronnie, a prostitute ashamed of how far she's fallen and desperately in need of friendship; Sam, a slick bookie who wants to profit from Danny's boxing talent; and Nellie, a beautiful but lonely girl who refuses to believe Danny is beyond redemption -- each of whom has a different vision of Danny's future -- will help steer his rocky course. Gritty, compelling, and groundbreaking for its time, A Stone for Danny Fisher is a tale of ambition, hope, and violence set in a distinct and dangerous period of American history. A classic, sexy bestseller by Harold Robbins, reintroduced to a whole new generation of readers.

The Elvis Films

Author : Jon Abbott
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500509972
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Elvis Films written by Jon Abbott and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a man single-handedly changes the course of popular music with one of the most pure and passionate original sounds of the 20th century, it's tough to care about his sideline occupations. But Elvis Presley wanted to be an actor as much, if not more, as he wanted to be a singer. Many Elvis fans didn't like his movies, and neither did Elvis, very much. And yet, the vast majority of them were box office smashes, sure-fire money making hits. Someone was buying tickets. In the 1960s, it seemed everyone was buying tickets. This book considers Elvis Presley's films not as an unwelcome intrusion into the insular Presley universe, even though this is how Presley and his associates usually viewed them, but as a significant part of the late 1950s and primarily 1960s pop culture they represented. Elvis Presley, after all, loved film and TV. The Elvis Films puts these guilty pleasures into context with not only Presley's life and circumstances at the time, but looks at how they related-or in some cases did not relate to-the other popular culture of the period. Jon Abbott has been writing about popular culture for over thirty years in a variety of specialist and trade publications, and his kaleidoscopic knowledge of his subject leaves no stone unturned in this provocative and fact-filled analysis of the Elvis movies and the arts and media environment that surrounded them. He is the author of Irwin Allen Television Productions 1964-1970, and Stephen J. Cannell Productions: A History of All Series and Pilots.

Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema

Author : Tom Lisanti
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147660116X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema written by Tom Lisanti and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elvis Presley musicals, beach romps, biker flicks, and alienated youth movies were some of the most popular types of drive-in films during the sixties. The actresses interviewed for this book (including Celeste Yarnall, Lana Wood, Linda Harrison, Pamela Tiffin, Deanna Lund, Diane McBain, Judy Pace, and Chris Noel) all made their mark in these genres. These fantastic femmes could be found either twisting on the shores of Malibu, careening down the highway on a chopper, being serenaded by Elvis, or taking on the establishment as hip coeds. As cult figures, they contributed greatly to that period of filmmaking aimed at the teenage audience who frequented the drive-ins of America. They frolicked, screamed, and danced their way into B-movie history in such diverse films as Eve, Teenage Millionaire, The Girls on the Beach, Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, Three in the Attic, Wild in the Streets, and Paradise, Hawaiian Style. This book is a celebration of the actresses' careers. They have for the most part been overlooked in other publications documenting the history of film. Fantasy Femmes addresses their film and television careers, focusing on their view of the above genres, their candid comments and anecdotes about their films, the people they worked with, and their feelings in general regarding their lives and the choices they made. The book is well illuminated and contains a complete list of film and television credits.

Elvis and Me

Author : Priscilla Presley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593639561
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Elvis and Me written by Priscilla Presley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that reveals the intimate story of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, told by the woman who lived it. THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE PRISCILLA, DIRECTED BY SOFIA COPPOLA Decades after his death, millions of fans continue to worship Elvis the legend. But very few knew him as Elvis the man. Here in her own words, Priscilla Presley tells the story of their love, revealing the details of their first meeting, their marriage, their affairs, their divorce, and the unbreakable bond that has remained long after his tragic death. A tribute to both the man and the legend, Elvis and Me gives Elvis fans the world over an unprecedented look at the true life of the King of Rock 'N' Roll and the woman who loved him.

Elvis by the Presleys

Author : Priscilla Beaulieu Presley
Publisher : Crown Archetype
ISBN 13 : 0307237419
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Elvis by the Presleys written by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2005 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family photos, reminiscences, and still-life photography of Elvis's possessions.

The Fall of Buster Keaton

Author : James L. Neibaur
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810876833
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Fall of Buster Keaton written by James L. Neibaur and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into a family of vaudevillians, Buster Keaton made his first film appearance in 1917 at the age of 21. By the early 1920s, he had established himself as one of the geniuses of silent cinema with such films as Sherlock, Jr. and The Navigator and his 1925 work, The General, placed at number 18 in the American Film Institute's poll of the 100 greatest features, the highest ranked silent film on the survey. But with the advent of sound in the late 1920s, silent stars like Keaton began to fall out of favor and the great comedian's career began to decline. In The Fall of Buster Keaton, James Neibaur assesses Keaton's work during the talking picture era, especially those made at MGM, Educational, and Columbia studios. While giving some attention to the early part of Keaton's career, Neibaur focuses on Keaton's contract work with the three studios, as well as his subsequent work as a gagman, supporting player, and television pitchman. The book also recounts the resurgence of interest in Keaton's silent work, which resulted in a lifetime achievement Oscar and worldwide recognition before his death in 1966. This fascinating account of an artist's struggle and triumph during the more challenging period of his career will be of interest to anyone wanting to learn about one of film's most influential performers.

Elvis Presley in Hollywood

Author : Gerry McLafferty
Publisher : Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elvis Presley in Hollywood written by Gerry McLafferty and published by Trans-Atlantic Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Elvis' Favorite Director

Author : Michael A. Hoey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781593937553
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Elvis' Favorite Director written by Michael A. Hoey and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still the youngest director to ever win an Academy Award (Skippy, 1931); Norman Taurog's career embraces the history of Hollywood, from silent comedies to the Elvis Presley era. During Taurog's fifty-two years in the film business he directed seventy-eight feature films starring everyone from Maurice Chevalier and Carole Lombard, to W.C. Fields and Bing Crosby, to Mickey Rooney and Spencer Tracy (who won an Oscar for his performance as Father Flanagan in Taurog's Boys Town), to Judy Garland, Mario Lanza, Cary Grant, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, and of course his nine films with Elvis Presley. Elvis' Favorite Director is an in-depth study of Hollywood movie-making, seen through the eyes of a talented craftsman and told by a writer who worked closely with Taurog during the last six years and eight films of his career. Michael A. Hoey is a multi-award winning film and television editor, writer, director and producer. He is the son of Dennis Hoey, who played Inspector Lestrade in Universal's Sherlock Holmes series. Hoey began in Hollywood working as a film editor. He later wrote, directed or produced a number of feature films, including the teen comedy Palm Springs Weekend, the cult sci-fi flick The Navy vs. the Night Monsters and two movies starring Elvis Presley, Stay Away, Joe and Live A Little, Love A Little. He was also a contributing writer on four more films starring Elvis. He then transitioned into television where he wrote and directed a number of shows, including a multi-year run on Fame for which he received several awards. He lives in San Clemente, California.

The Lost Country

Author : J. R. Salamanca
Publisher : Tantor eBooks
ISBN 13 : 1618030264
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Country written by J. R. Salamanca and published by Tantor eBooks. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "lost country" is the familiar country of innocence and security known as youth—a country we have all known and which, occasionally, in a book like this one, we are able to rediscover. J. R. Salamanca's The Lost Country is the story of a boy, Jim Blackstarr, who grows up on a farm in Virginia. As a child, he delights in the beauty that surrounds him: the rivers and hills and trees, the seasons of the year, all the shapes and textures and patterns of his world. But, as he grows older, he makes other discoveries. He experiences brutality, passion, fear, and shame. These experiences destroy the simplicity of his early relationships; they complicate and darken his later ones. Ultimately, they drive him—as they drive all men—out of, and away from, the country of his youth.

The Films of Elvis Presley

Author : Susan Doll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book The Films of Elvis Presley written by Susan Doll and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Elvis Experience

Author : Dave Hebler
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781986563116
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book The Elvis Experience written by Dave Hebler and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dave Hebler spent four years (1972-1976) protecting Elvis Presley as one of his personal bodyguards and during that time was also Elvis's Kenpo Karate instructor. Every Elvis fan knows all about Elvis the entertainer, Elvis the actor, and Elvis the singer. In this book Dave takes you through his personal journey with Elvis, sharing many humorous stories to give you a glimpse of Elvis the person. Dave's stories reveal that not only was Elvis the greatest entertainer ever, but also the greatest person ever. Dave takes you through how he met Elvis, how he became Elvis's bodyguard and karate instructor, what it was like during his first day on the job, the things crazy women did during concerts, and more. He goes into some fun stories with Elvis including the big drug bust, the San Diego Chicken, the lady ninja, the gaudy bauble, the gunslinger, the kid with the watches, and more. He talks about Elvis the giver, Elvis the martial artist, and Elvis the Christian to paint the picture of who Elvis the person truly was. Dave shares some stories in this book that have never been told and even goes through his firing, what it was like handling Elvis's prescription drug issues, and provides insights about the controversial book "Elvis What Happened?" This book is Dave's journey as he lived it with Elvis - a man Dave loved dearly and protected from everyone but Elvis himself.