Elvis Presley’s personal favorite film role “King Creole” from 1958,(the same year Elvis Presley was inducted into the U.S.Army),is a good drama with a few good musical numbers thrown in. Shot in glorious black&white and produced by Hal Wallis,who produced some of Mr. Presley’s biggest hits(“Loving You” from 1957,”Blue Hawaii” from 1961,”Girls!Girls! Girls!” from 1962) and directed by Michael Curtiz(the classic “Casablanca”),the story takes place in New Orleans and Elvis stars as Danny Fisher,a disillusioned high school drop out with designs on being a singer.Danny gets a job at the night club “King Creole”. The picture features a fine supporting cast including the late,great Walter Matthau,very effective as a sleazy gangster,Carolyn Jones as the gangster’s kept woman,Dean Jagger as Danny’s father,Vic Morrow as a hoodlum and one of the gangster’s henchman and Dolores Hart as Danny’s girlfriend,(Ms. Hart after making several movies left acting and decided to become a nun in the mid ’60′s).Elvis’s top ten hit single from this movie was “Hard Headed Woman”.Also, “Trouble” was a well known number.Elvis Presley had said in interviews that of all the 30 odd pictures he had made Danny Fisher in “King Creole” was his personal favorite film role.And,Mr. Presley added that he hated most of the rest of the pictures he had made.
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Elvis Presley’s personal favorite film role “King Creole” from 1958,(the same year Elvis Presley was inducted into the U.S.Army),is a good drama with a few good musical numbers thrown in. Shot in glorious black&white and produced by Hal Wallis,who produced some of Mr. Presley’s biggest hits(“Loving You” from 1957,”Blue Hawaii” from 1961,”Girls!Girls! Girls!” from 1962) and directed by Michael Curtiz(the classic “Casablanca”),the story takes place in New Orleans and Elvis stars as Danny Fisher,a disillusioned high school drop out with designs on being a singer.Danny gets a job at the night club “King Creole”. The picture features a fine supporting cast including the late,great Walter Matthau,very effective as a sleazy gangster,Carolyn Jones as the gangster’s kept woman,Dean Jagger as Danny’s father,Vic Morrow as a hoodlum and one of the gangster’s henchman and Dolores Hart as Danny’s girlfriend,(Ms. Hart after making several movies left acting and decided to become a nun in the mid ’60′s).Elvis’s top ten hit single from this movie was “Hard Headed Woman”.Also, “Trouble” was a well known number.Elvis Presley had said in interviews that of all the 30 odd pictures he had made Danny Fisher in “King Creole” was his personal favorite film role.And,Mr. Presley added that he hated most of the rest of the pictures he had made.