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1960 brings ABC airing Frank Sinatra’s Welcome Home, Elvis edition of his
variety show, for which Elvis was paid a staggering $125,000. |
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On July 3, 1960 Vernon Presley marries divorcee
and mother of three sons, Davada (Dee) Stanley, an American whom he met in
Germany.Although they live at Graceland briefly, they later move to a home
nearby. |
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March 25 of 1961 finds Elvis at the Bloch Arena
at Pearl Harbor. His performance and support raises money and awareness which
enables the USS Arizona Memorial to be completed the following year. This will
be Elvis’ last live, non-movie performance until his 1968 television
special. |
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Elvis will remain in Hawaii thru mid-April
filming Blue Hawaii. When the soundtrack album debuts in October
of 1961, it sells so well that it becomes second only to GI Blues as the
biggest album of Elvis’ career on the Billboard charts.
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Late March to late April of 1962 finds Elvis
working on Girls! Girls! Girls!,Buy DVD and late August and September bring filming on
It Happened at the World’s Fair. |
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Priscilla Beaulieu had flown from West Germany to
visit Elvis for Christmas 1962. And by early 1963 she will move there,
finishing her senior year of high school in Memphis. |
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Elvis works on his thirteenth film, another
“formula” movie, Fun in Acapulco. in the late winter of
1963.
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By July, Elvis has gone to Las Vegas to film one
of his most popular films, Viva Las Vegas.
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Elvis records and shoots for his fifteenth motion
picture, Kissin’ Cousins in October of 1963.
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In early 1964 Elvis purchases the Potomac, former
presidential yacht of Franklin Roosevelt, for $55,000.
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In March of '64 Elvis begins filming for his
sixteenth motion picture, Roustabout,
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In October of 1964 he's at work on Tickle
Me. Shamefully, this movie will have no new songs, just unreleased
non-movie songs previously recorded.
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Continuing the brutal schedule, by Spring of 1965
he's filming Harum Scarum.
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picture, to be released out of chronology as his twenty-first, Frankie
and Johnny.
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With his huge generosity always evident, in July
Elvis donates $50,000 to the Motion Picture Relief Fund, reportedly the largest
single donation the organization has ever received up to this date. Barbara
Stanwyck and Frank Sinatra accepted the gift. |
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Back to the movies in August of 1965, this time
it's Paradise, Hawaiian Style.
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Arizona Memorial, which Elvis' gifts had helped to build. |
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August 27, 1965. A big day. The Beatles visit
with Elvis for several hours at his home in California and have an informal jam
session. |
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February of 1966 and he's at work on movie #22 -
Spinout.
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Trouble.
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December of 1966. Elvis proposes to Priscilla!
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In February of 1967, Elvis buys the Circle G, a
163-acre ranch in Mississippi, minutes across the Tennessee state line from
Graceland. Here he, Priscilla and friends will indulge their love of horses.
About Elvis' favorite
horse. |
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RCA releases Elvis’ second gospel album,
How Great Thou Art, in March of 1967. It will win Elvis his first
Grammy award.
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February-April of '67 he's filming again. On #25
Clambake.
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May 1, 1967. Just after 9:30AM Elvis married
Priscilla in a small, private ceremony at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. A
press conference and breakfast reception follow. Then the couple honeymooned
for a few days in Palm Springs. |
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May 29, 1967.Elvis and Priscilla dress in their
wedding clothes and have a second wedding reception in the trophy room at
Graceland to include their family and friends who were not in Las Vegas for the
wedding. |
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During the summer of '67, Priscilla's pregnancy
is announced. |
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Back at the salt mines...In summer its movie #26,
Speedway
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February 1, 1968, nine months to the day of their
wedding, Priscilla gives birth to Lisa Marie Presley. |
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And in March it's #28, Live a Little, Love
a Little. The Great Dane that appears is this movie is Elvis' real dog,
named Brutus, although the dog's screen name was Albert!
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June 27, 28, 29, and 30. Taping for an NBC
television special, which will actually air on December 3, 1968. The true name
was Elvis but it is commonly called the '68 Comeback Special.
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Summer of '68. Yup. #29, Charro!,
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Girls.
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During January and February of 1969 Elvis records
some of his best work ever. Returning to Memphis, his produces four hits which
will be released in late '69 and early '70. They are In the Ghetto,
Suspicious Minds, Don’t Cry, Daddy and Kentucky Rain. |
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In the spring of 1969, Elvis films Change
of Habit, which will be his last acting role in a motion picture. |
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July 31 - August 28, 1969. The now famous
four-week, fifty-seven show engagement at the International Hotel in Las Vegas.
His show is wildly successful. Elvis' first live album, Elvis in Person
at the International Hotel is recorded during this engagement.
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In September, RCA releases Suspicious
Minds, which becomes Elvis' first number one single since Good Luck
Charm in 1962. |
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