King CreoleBroadly concerned as the best of the 31 theater film by Elvis Presley.King CreolePromised future fulfillment of Presley's wish to be a good actor.
Elvis arrived in Hollywood on January 13, 1958 for several days of Audiopracking before the start of main photography toKing CreoleJanuary 20. The shooting took place at the Paramount Studio lot in Hollywood until the end of February.This was the first time that the two forces bundled on Paramount.Stone to Danny Fisher. "The story of Robbins was a gloomy one of a northern boy who fought up the slum. Baker and Gazzo professionally changed the setting in New Orleans and made Danny a sympathetic singer-high school waste.
On February 22, only two days after photographing in Hollywood, actress Dolores Hart, 19 years old, a birthday party for a colleague role crew member Jan Shepard, who was about to turn 30.(Shepard was a role that was like Elvis's sister in the film and heart sum his young girlfriend.) Elvis unexpectedly arrived at the party with two gifts to Jan - a stuffed tiger and a film camera used to use home films at the partyto take.
In 2007 interview with Joe Kerin, Shepard gave some insight into the character and personality of Elvis in the five weeks that spent shooting in Hollywood."He was never in his dressing room."She remembered it."Elvis never had a cent for him. "Yes, thank you," he said. "
Shepard also described how Elvis reacted differently to two Co -Stars on Paramount.ear to ear. "Shepard says that Elvis responded very differently when another actor went into the biggest commissioner during lunch. When Jan Marlon saw Brando coming in, she told Elvis, but Hans was too excited and nervous to turn. When Brando ElvisHe removed, and he sat in an empty chair just behind Elvis.Then he broke out of excitement about meeting Brando.
• Carolyn Jones ignored criticism because he had worked with Elvis
At the age of 28 -Carolyn Jones (left) rejected other dramatic parts to join Dolores Hart as one of the two leading ladies of PresleyKing CreoleCarolyn's career increased after receiving a best supporting actress nomination the year before.Chic to serve for the stay of life.It has a wonderful, healthy respect for Hollywood.doesn't hurt. "
Liliane Montevecchi, a French actress in the team team, first had about Elvis.
"I don't want to get too close to him. If they tell me that I have to imagine that man I am ruined. I only consider him the belly dancer, the big sexy pot. Then he comes to my dressing room and says to me:"Why you can't do me." He is like a little boy, so I am good for him, only I will not get too close. "
• Elvis asked Walter Matthau for a helping hand
Elvis' most important co-star on the male side was Walter Matthau, who was thrown at the age of 37 as the scary crime manager Maxie Fields.Matthau remembered the first thing Elvis said to him when they met on the set.Mathau, I would certainly appreciate it if you could help me with this spectacle. He called Elvis Presley 'Elvy'. "
For Teen Dolores Hart, Matthau was a relaxing influence on the set.
"My memories of Walter were of a man who was extremely merciful and completely contrary to the character he played. I was a young Ingénue and he had no reason to do his utmost to be completely polite to me and openTo be conversations with me or show me around the set. He always recognized me as part of the team.
A few years later, Walter Matthau would be reminded of a certain scene with Elvis inKing CreoleThe scene called on Mathau to break a Balsa -Boomstoast about Elvis' head.Walked behind him."There is the man who hit Elvis!"
• Hollywood -Spaliists forbidden to interview Elvis
At the start of the five-week shoot in Paramount Studio, Hollywood Spalists who were used to visit film sets to collect information and quotes for their syndicated columns, the doors to the Presley film closed for them.Away. "The producer doesn't want anything to disturb the film plan, because Elvis has a time limit to meet Uncle Sam."
Spalner Sheilah Graham still had an interview with Elvis.."I'm glad I'm going to the army this year and not last year," he explained."For a year they said that I couldn't go. I have proven myself that I can do that."
The Spalators finally opened the aggressive of natureKing CreoleSet.james Bacon was the first to be released to talk to Elvis.In his column on February 13, he reported: "Presley has a normal cut for his current film and it makes him pretty beautiful."
Author Harrison Carroll could witness one of the last scenes that were filmed on Paramount before the rolling team and the crew moved to New Orleans.Number, the camera focused on the reaction of the audience in a club that was designed to look like a Dixieland site on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.a group of extras. "
• The choreographer and director of the film spoke Elvis
Carroll had the two most important film directors of Elvis comment on their leading husband.
"When Elvis first heard that he had to do a number of digits with a copper department, he was extremely nervous. But when he was used to it, he liked it. He made a number of typical Roll -Numbers with his guitarBut this photo is the first time that Rock is married to Dixieland. "
Then director Mike Curtiz Elvis' Work in the film:
'Elvis is very aware of a shared audience.The children love him;The older people mock him.We let him sing different types of numbers on this photo.But the most important thing is that he gets the chance to act.This is that a kind of part, where you might throw a young Marlon Brando or a James Dean.It is a challenge for Elvis to prove the audience that he is not only a rock -'roll singer with a style and a scart. "
Tells the routine and behavior of the bay of Elvis on the set ofKing Creole.Director Curtiz said that Presley was the first on the set at 1 p.m. 7:30 p.m. every morning learned his lines, and were always "staying in the camera's ear shot, so he shouldn't be called twice."And Carolyn Jones and Llyan Chauvin learn how to bump.King Creole.
"He had one thing about drinking coffee from a cup. For example, most people drank the center of the cup with the handle on the right. He put his mouth right next to the handle. You can see him do that 'King Creole'In the kitchen scene with Jan Shepard.
• Huge crowds were confronted with rolling teams and crew in New Orleans
On March 1, 1958, the roll team and crew ofKing CreolePacked together and moved to New Orleans for location of location that started on March 3. Elvis and his boys took over the tenth floor of the Roosevelt Hotel, directly at the French neighborhood.village.
Dolores Hart remembered the problems created by the enormous crowd that met in the French neighborhood.Street.de had to place planks from the roof to the roof;The children would simply not allow us to move Elvis. "
Two days of filming was lost in New Orleans when it rained all weekend.Phone with my mother all day.
• Carolyn Jones: Elvis A "Goodman in A Clinch"
NaKing CreoleWere released nationally in July, Carolyn Jones began to receive letters, thousands of them, from Presley fans who asked if Elvis was a good kusser.
“I think I kissed Elvis about 30 times while creating 'Creole', but the funny thing is that it is difficult to tell you exactly how I felt because we worked.To remember, not to beat noses.It is human if he didn't. "
(Left: Colonel Parker, Dolores Hart en Hal Wallis on Farewell Party for Elvis on March 12, 1958)
Shooting location in New Orleans Packaged on 11 March. The next day in Hollywood, the rolling team and crew gave a surprise that went away from Elvis in Paramount Studio -commissioner who can participate.) A cake with the image of a private plot potato of the armywas available..
On Friday morning, March 14, Elvis and his friends returned to Memphis to rest.King CreoleIn Memphis on 4 June. When the film was released nationally on 2 July 1958, Elvis assessed the tank training in Fort Hood, Texas.
Together with Elvis, the rest of the role of the role and the crew continued with other efforts.Everything shared a memorable experience with Elvis PresleyKing Creole.Maybe Jan Shepard summarized the best meeting when she later said: "In the 'Creole' days, Elvis was just a big teddy bear."Alan Hanson(© Maj 2019)
(Photos above of "The Elvis Files: Vol. 2", Erik Lorentssen, KJ Consulting)
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