Sunday, May 29, 2011

GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS

Girls! Girls! Girls!
(aka Girls, Girls, Girls)
Paramount, 1962, Color, 106 minutes, ***
Released November, 1962

The King plays a Hawaiian charter boat captain. Suddenly finding himself without a boat, he tries to buy a sailboat that belonged to his father. He works as a tuna fisherman by day and a nightclub entertainer by night, trying hard to save enough cash to buy the boat. Of course there are numerous girls in Preley's life, but when his best girl helps him get his boat, romantic problems ensue.

Produced by: Hal B. Wallis
Associate Producer: Paul Nathan
Directed by: Norman Taurog
Assistant Director: D. Michael Moore
Screenplay: Edward Anhalt and Allan Weiss
Story by: Allan Weiss
Music Scored and Conducted by: Joseph J. Lilley
Vocal Accompaniment by: The Jordanaires
Technical Advisor: Col. Tom Parker
Musical Numbers Staged by: Charles O'Curran
Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Walter Tyler
Set Decoration: Sam Comer and Frank R. McKelvy
Costumes: Edith Head
Makeup Supervision: Wally Westmore
Hair Style Supervision: Nellie Manley
Sound Recording: Harold Lewis and Charles Grenzbach
Director of Photography: Loyal Griggs
Filmed in Technicolor
Technicolor Color Consultant: Richard Mueller
Editorial Supervision: Stanley Johnson

Cast: Elvis Presley [Ross Carpenter], Stella Stevens [Robin Gantner], Jeremy Slate [Wesley Johnson], Laurel Goodwin [Laurel Dodge], Benson Fong [Kin Yung], Guy Lee [Chen Yung], Beulah Quo [Mme. Yung], Robert Strauss [Sam], Frank Puglia [Alexander Stavros], Lili Valenty [Mama Stavros], Barbara Beale [Leona], Betty Beall [Linda], Nestor Paiva [Arthur Morgan], Mary Treen [Mrs. Figgot, Hat Shop Customer], Ann McCrea [Mrs. Morgan], Ginny Tiu [Mai Ling], Elizabeth Tiu [Tai Ling], Alexander Tiu [Mai Ling's Brother], The Jordanaires [backup vocals]

Musical Program: [0:00] Girls! Girls! Girls! (sung offscreen behind titles by Elvis Presley and The Jordanaires); [0:09] Never Let Me Go (sung by Stella Stevens backed by The Jordanaires); [0:12] I Don't Wanna Be Tied (sung by Elvis Presley and The Jordanaires); [0:25] Mama (sung by The Four Amigos); [0:28] We'll Be Together (sung by Elvis Presley and Party Guests); [0:29] A Boy Like Me, A Girl Like You (sung by Elvis Presley onscreen with The Jordanaires offscreen); [0:37] Earth Boy (sung by Elvis Presley with Ginny and Elizabeth Tiu); [0:49] The Nearness of You (sung by Stella Stevens backed by The Jordanaires); [0:52] Return to Sender (sung by Elvis Presley and The Jordanaires); [0:54] Because of Love (sung by Elvis Presley and The Jordanaires); [0:58] Thanks to the Rolling Sea (sung by Elvis Presley and The Jordanaires); [1:00] Song of the Shrimp (sung by Elvis Presley and The Jordanaires); [1:10] The Walls Have Ears (sung by Elvis Presley onscreen with The Jordanaires offscreen, danced by Elvis and Laurel Goodwin); [1:17] We're Coming in Loaded (sung by Elvis Presley and The Jordanaires); [1:24] Baby, Baby, Baby (sung by Stella Stevens backed by The Jordanaires); [1:36] Girls! Girls! Girls! (sung by Elvis Presley onscreen with The Jordanaires offscreen, danced by Elvis, Ginny and Elizabeth Tiu and Chorus Girls)

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