The Trouble With Girls

And, for once, Elvis has something to do other than sing and seduce women. He is in charge and Andrews, as the Colonel Parker figure, generally ends up doing his bidding.

It's hard to know of this is deliberate, but given the personal resonances in many Elvis scripts, it's not outlandish to wonder if the Peysers - and Tewksbury? It's hard not to share in his pleasure when he joins the gospel quartet - a role he had tried to play in real life, only to be turned down by the Blackwood Brothers - and grooves to Swing Down Sweet Chariot. And, in his dashing white suit and sideburns, he looks fantastic as a professional nomad. Heck, he even smokes little cigars, much like he did in real life.

Shame about the title. Instead, what Tewksbury - and Elvis - gave us was an entertaining, flawed, small town movie which makes a quiet, unpretentious plea for tolerance even the mayor says: It's good enough that even the professional killjoys at the New York Times - probably the harshest critics of Elvis' movie output - eventually concluded that this amiable movie offered an affectionate, detailed, even-handed, unsentimental portrait of s America and noted, slightly patronisingly, that Elvis 'performs well with a reasonably developed character and he sings well too'.

So if you haven't seen this movie at all, what are you waiting for? And if you haven't watched it in a while, watch it again. The plot, which hinges on what a small-town hard-luck woman Sheree North rightly does to a lecherous druggist Dabney Coleman , deserves little attention.

But the situation, a traveling chautauqua making a small-town stand in the mid's, deserves a lot of attention - which it gets in a film that succeeds so amiably in its parts that the relative weakness of the whole doesn't matter too desperately. Tewksbury began directing features with the very durable comedy 'Sunday in New York' , and he has continued making good, if not especially memorable movies since. The evocation of 's Americana is exceptionally even-handed, detailed, affectionate without sentimentality, funny without condescension.

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Production finally began in October and was finished by December 18, Filming took place at the MGM studios. Among the film's working titles had been 'Big America' during the Columbia possession and 'Chautauqa' including the time of production with Elvis. Maryln Mason played Charlene, the performers' union representative. Sheree North played Nita Bix.

She is also be remembered for playing Kramer's mother on the 'Seinfeld' TV series, a character who reveals to the other characters that Kramer's first name is Cosmo. She might be best known for her voice. From to , she was the voice of Velma in the 'Scooby-Doo' cartoon series. Since , she has been an agent for the William Morris Agency. Vincent Price was Mr. Morality in the 'Trouble With Girls'. He played many types of roles in movies, including playing Baka in 'The Ten Commandments'. Eventually, Price became best known for his work in the horror genre - his character Dr.

Phibes being one of the most memorable.

His inimitable voice can be heard as the macabre narrator in Michael Jackson's music video 'Thriller'. Shortly before his death in , he said that one of his favorite roles was the voice of Professor Ratigan in the Disney cartoon 'The Great Mouse Detective'. A gourmet cook, Price concentrated a big part the 's on cooking programs for television and he and his wife, the actress Coral Brown, wrote a cookbook. His last film role was in the film 'Edward Scissorhands'.

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Over the years, Mr. Coleman has became known for his roles as a smarmy, selfish type.

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You might remember him for his role as the oppressive boss in the movie 'Nine To Five'. Today, he can be seen weekly in the TV drama series 'The Guardian'. He received a Emmy nomination for a guest role on 'Columbo'.