Character name: Lucky Jackson
Appears in:
Viva Las Vegas
Date(s): May 20, 1964
Award(s):
- 2nd Golden Laurel - Musical
- 3rd Golden Laurel - Musical Performance Female
- 3rd Golden Laurel - Musical Performance Male
| Character back story:
Race car driver Lucky Jackson goes to Las Vegas to earn money to pay for a new engine for his race car. Working as a waiter, he still finds the time to court young Rusty Martin. | | Inspiration for character: | | Age/Occupation: Race car driver | | Personality type: | | Signature look: | | Resides: | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:
- One of the guitar players on the soundtrack was singer/actor Glen Campbell.
- When the wedding scene was filmed, many tabloid magazines at the time published photos of the "wedding" and suggested that Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret really had gotten married
- Elvis and Ann-Margret began dating while filming Viva Las Vegas, although they stopped dating, they remained good friends until Elvis died
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| Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - Elvis is at the wheel but Ann-Margret drives him wild!
- Lucky Jackson: Oh now I get it, you want me to use my 'bravado' to block for you so you can... come right through.
Count Elmo Mancini: That's right, I knew you were clever Mr Jackson.
Lucky Jackson: Well just two or three things wrong with your proposition. I don't work for anybody, I never come second to anybody and 1 small thing - I intend to win.
- It's that "go-go" guy and that "bye-bye" gal in the fun capital of the world!
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Character name: Vince Everett
Appears in:
Jailhouse Rock
Date(s):
November 8th, 1957
Award: ASCAP Award For Best Song
| Character back story:
Vince Everett is sent to prison for Manslaughter,
While in prison his cellmate Hank , a country & western singer recognizes Vince's talent
They make a contract to perform together,and to share the profit
When released from jail, Vince is unsuccessful getting a job as a singer until he meets Peggy,and they start a record company together
A confrontation, and fight with Hank results in Vince's throat being injured, putting his career in danger. | | Inspiration for character: | | Age/Occupation: Singer | | Personality type: | | Signature look: | | Resides: | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:
In the listing of the American Film Institute "100 Years, 100 songs" the song "Jailhouse Rock" was voted #21
Elvis refused to watch this movie because of Judy Tyler's tragic accidental death in a car wreck on July 4,1957, three days after the film was completed
Gene Kelly was watching as Elvis performed the "Jailhouse Rock" set-piece for the film | |
| Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - Peggy Van Alden: How dare you think such cheap tactics would work with me!
- Vince Everett: They ain't tactics, honey. It's just the beast in me
- Elvis in action as never before!
- Elvis in his first dramatic singing role!
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Character name: Johnny
Appears in:
Frankie and Johnny
Date(s):
March1966
Award(s):
4th Golden Laurel Musical
| Character back story:
Elvis plays Johnny,an entertainer with a big gambling problem.
Donna Douglas plays Johnny's girl Frankie
A fortune teller tells Johnny how he can change his luck. He needs to find himself a redhead,and the cat fight begins | Inspiration for character:
A 1904 song "He Done Me Wrong" sung by Mae West in her 1933 movie "She Done Him Wrong" | Age/Occupation:
Riverboat Entertainer | | Personality type: Gambler | | Signature look: | | Resides: | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:
Donna Douglas was in "The Beverly Hillbillies" T.V show as Elly May Clampett | |
| Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - It's Elvis as Johnny, and oh Lordy, how he can love!
- Johnny: Are you a real redhead?
- Nelly Bly: I'm a real everything
- Johnny: What's your lucky number?
- Nelly Bly: One, one at a time
- Johnny: One it is. Would you mind giving your magic touch...just for luck? You had better get the bottom one too. By this time tomorrow, this ship should be the S.S Johnny. What's your name, Lucky?
- Nelly Bly: Nelly, Nelly Bly
- Johnny: Welcome aboard!
- Cully: That's it Bly! I need a name to rhyme with "eye" for a new song I'm writing. Now I got it Nelly Bly!
- Johnny: You are going to be famous in a song
- Nelly Bly: Well, I've tried every other way
- Johnny: I don't even have to look. I know it's going to be number one. (The silver ball on the roulette wheel falls in the number one spot)
- Cully: Ha Ha! Maybe that gypsy reader knew something
- Johnny: Maybe? My future just got here!
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Character name: Danny Fisher
Appears in:
King Creole
Date(s): July 2,1958
Award(s): | Character back story:
Danny a young delinquent,flunks high school.
He quits his bus boy job in a nightclub, and one night gets the opportunity to perform
Danny is a success and the local crime boss Maxie wants to hire him to sing at his nightclub The Blue Shade"
Danny refuses his offer, but Maxie won't take no for an answer | Inspiration for character:
Based on the Harold Robbins novel
"A Stone For Danny Fisher" | | Age/Occupation: Singer | | Personality type: Troubled Youth | | Signature look: | | Resides: | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:
James Dean was at one point in the running that years later was played by Elvis
Elvis got a 60- day extension from his draft board to finish filming of the film before he was inducted into the U.S Army
Often considered the best movie Elvis ever made
Personal favorite of Elvis of his own movies | |
| Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - Ronnie: Maybe we we'lll meet someplace by accident Danny:
- Danny: Will you tell me where this accident may take place and I'll make sure I'm there
- Charles Le Grand: You keep speaking of Danny having a profession. Singing is a profession. Well alright, so he's starting in the sewer. Sewers can't be ignored. They run under the best cities, and some of them lead to the fanciest plumbing at the Ritz
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