On what would have been Elvis Presley's 86th birthday, here are some memorable conversations from the King of Roll, as well as a montage from his classic movie King Creole.
In a 1956 interview, Elvis Presley looked at life and love:
"Well, I don't smoke and I don't drink and I love to go to movies. Maybe someday, I'm going to have a home and a family of my own and I'm not going to budge from it. I was an only child, but maybe my kids won't be. I suppose this kind of talk raises another question. Am I in love? No. I thought I'd been in love, but I guess I wasn't. It just passed over. I guess I haven't met the girl yet, but I will. And I hope I won't be took long, because I get lonesome sometimes. I get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd. I've got a feeling that with her, who ever she may be, I won't be lonesome no matter where I am."
From the TV special Elvis by the Presleys, Elvis and Colonel Tom Parker talked about how his success was built:
"Elvis: I wasn't known at all until Colonel Parker started managing me, you see and I got on R-C-A Victor and on television and then I started being known...
Parker: I did all the promotion, the outdoor advertising, and he did the show on the show and the fans made it possible. So I did my part, Elvis did his show and we were lucky."
We’re also remembering what many consider Elvis Presley's best movie, King Creole. The gritty film shows a rough-and-tumble Elvis playing high school dropout Danny Fisher, who proclaims he's "not a hoodlum, but...a hustler!" In the last picture he completed before entering the Army, Presley tangles with a mobster played by Walter Matthau and shares kisses with both Dolores Hart and (a pre-Addams Family) Carolyn Jones.[courtesy - Paramount Video]