Phil C
03-13-2006, 01:58 PM
It will be on March 19 at 9 A.M. so set your recorders if you can't watch it live. This is a great musical comedy based on the 1958 drafting of teen idol Elvis Presley.
It stars Janet Leigh and Dick Van Dyke as Birdie's agents, Ann Margret as the lucking teenager, Jesse Pierson who is very good as Birdie, Paul Lynde as Ann Margret's father who is excellent in his role, and Bobby Rydell as the boyfriend.
I don't much like musical comedies but this one is great.
The real Elvis Presley was offered the title role but he wisely refused. He was still at the peak of his popularity and I don't think this would have helped him. If the movie had been made five years later maybe it would have been right for him. Elvis had wise agents because when they found out he was drafted they had him record several songs that they were able to release over a two year perioud to keep him before the public while he was in the army overseas and when he served his two year tour of duty he came back still popular and became even more popular than before he was drafted.
It stars Janet Leigh and Dick Van Dyke as Birdie's agents, Ann Margret as the lucking teenager, Jesse Pierson who is very good as Birdie, Paul Lynde as Ann Margret's father who is excellent in his role, and Bobby Rydell as the boyfriend.
I don't much like musical comedies but this one is great.
The real Elvis Presley was offered the title role but he wisely refused. He was still at the peak of his popularity and I don't think this would have helped him. If the movie had been made five years later maybe it would have been right for him. Elvis had wise agents because when they found out he was drafted they had him record several songs that they were able to release over a two year perioud to keep him before the public while he was in the army overseas and when he served his two year tour of duty he came back still popular and became even more popular than before he was drafted.