ELVIS PRESLEY

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ELVIS PRESLEY
A rare original shooting script for King Creole, Screenplay by Herbert Baker and Michael V.Gazzo, January 3rd, 1958, typescript, annotated throughout by a member of the wardrobe department for reference purposes with details of the main characters' costumes supplemented by sixty four previously unpublished photographs of various members of the cast in costume, including twenty one photographs of Presley alone, photographs 4½ x 3½in. and smaller, 167pp, original boards.

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King Creole, Paramount, 1958, starred Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau, Dean Jagger, Dolores Hart and Paul Stewart. It was Elvis' fourth film and he was blessed by a formidable supporting cast. Elvis ..always cited this movie as his favourite out of all that he made. [the film showed] Elvis moving towards serious acting...'King Creole' was the last great Presley film until the Las Vegas and live tour movies of the 1970s. (See Carr,(Roy) and Farren,(Mick): Elvis The Complete Illustrated Record, EEl Pie Publishing, London, 1982, pp.56-57)

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