The Trouble with Girls 1969

The Trouble with Girls


aka The Trouble with Girls (And How to Get into It)

aka The Chautauqua

MGM, 1969, Color, 97 minutes, ***

Released September, 1969



Offbeat Elvis Presley comedy, with the King playing the manager of a touring Chautauqua company in the 1920s, and the trouble that erupts when it arrives in a small town. With Marlyn Mason, Vincent Price, Dabney Coleman, Sheree North. Songs include "Clean Up Your Own Backyard" and "Swing Low Sweet Chariot."



Produced by: Lester Welch

Associate Producer: Wilson McCarthy

Directed by: Peter Tewksbury

Assistant Director: John Clark Bowman

Screen Play by: Arnold and Lois Peyser

From a Novel by: Day Keene and Dwight Babcock ( "The Chautauqua" )

Based on a Story by: Mauri Grashin

Music Score by: Billy Strange

Song Score: various

Choreography by: Jonathan Lucas

Art Directors: George W. Davis and Edward Carfagno

Set Decorations: Henry Grace, Jack Mills

Costumes Designed by: Bill Thomas

Hair Styles by: Mary Keats

Make-up by: William Tuttle

Recording Supervisor: Franklin Milton

Director of Photography: Jacques Marquette

Filmed in Panavision and Metrocolor

Film Editor: George W. Brooks



Cast: Elvis Presley [Walter Hale], Marlyn Mason [Charlene], Nicole Jaffe [Betty Smith], Sheree North [Nita Bix], Edward Andrews [Johnny], John Carradine [Mr. Drewcolt], Anissa Jones [Carol Bix], Vincent Price [Mr. Morality], Joyce Van Patten [Maude], Pepe Brown [Willy], Dabney Coleman [Harrison Wilby], Bill Zuckert [Mayor Gilchrist], Pitt Herbert [Mr. Perper], Anthony Teague [Clarence], Med Flory [Constable], Robert Nichols [Smith], Helen Winston [Olga Prehlik], Kevin O'Neal [Yale], Frank Welker [Rutgers], John Rubinstein [Princeton], Chuck Briles [Amherst], Patsy Garrett [Mrs. Gilchrist], Linda Sue Risk [Lily-Jeanne], Charles P. Thompson [Cabbie], Leonard Rumery [First Farmhand], William M. Paris [Second Farmhand], Kathleen Rainey [Third Farmhand], Hal James Pederson [Soda Jerk], Mike Wagner [Chowderhead], Brett Parker [Iceman], Duke Snider [The Cranker], Pacific Palisades High School Madrigals [Choral Group]



Musical Program: [0:00] Sousa March (played behind intro); [0:03] Chautauqua March (instrumental version played by the Chautauqua Marching Band); [0:06] Exsultate justi (sung by the Pacific Palisades High School Madrigals); [0:09] America the Beautiful (played on kazoos by children); [0:09] When You Wore a Tulip (And I Wore a Big Red Rose) (sung by young girl); [0:11] De Camptown Races (played by little boy "one man band"); [0:12] Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' Bye) (sung by Linda Sue Risk); [0:13] Darktown Strutter's Ball (sung and danced by Anissa Jones and Pepe Brown); [0:17] The Bell Song from the opera LAKME (sung by unidentified soprano off-screen); [0:22] Hello Susan Brown (sung by Kathleen Rainey, Leonard Rumery and William M. Paris); [0:30] Short ballet scene; [0:31] Swing Down Sweet Chariot (sung by Elvis Presley and Mens Chorus); [0:46] The Cukoo Is a Pretty Bird (sung by Kathleen Rainey, Leonard Rumery and William M. Paris); [0:51] Doodle Doo Doo (performed by Linda Sue Risk); [0:52] Frere Jacques (sung in English off-screen); [0:56] Medley: Blow the Man Down / Mademoiselle from Armentieres / Row, Row, Row Your Boat / Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep (sung by Mens Chorus during swimming exhibition); [1:16] Medley of college school songs (sung by Kevin O'Neal, Frank Welker, John Rubinstein and Chuck Briles, joined by Elvis Presley for a short excerpt of "Violets"); [1:19] unidentified song (sung by Cathy, Leonard and Bill [Kathleen Rainey, Leonard Rumery and William M. Paris]); [1:20] I'm Always Chasing Rainbows (excerpt sung by drunk Sheree North, along with short excerpts of some other unintelligible songs); [1:22] Clean Up Your Own Backyard (sung by Elvis Presley); [1:25] I'm Nobody's Baby (sung by Anissa Jones, Pepe Brown and Marilyn Mason); [1:26] Darktown Strutter's Ball (excerpt sung and danced by Anissa Jones and Pepe Brown); [1:27] Signs of the Zodiac (sung and danced by Elvis Presley and Marilyn Mason); [1:32] Almost (sung by Elvis Presley); Other short excerpts of numerous songs on soundtrack, too short or too much in the background to identify. The film is almost continuous music from start to finish!