Original subtitles

L EPISODE

OF FAMOUS FAMILIES,

THE ESLEYS.

AME

FEATURING THE KI-- ELVIPRESLEY.

HE M GLADYS AND VERNON.

HIS PARENTS,Y

HIS WIFE, PRISCILLA.

TH IS WEART ALL STARTED.

THIS IS HIS ROOTS.

AND HIS DAUGHTER LISA MARIE.

THERE WILL BE RARE INTERVIEWS WITH HIS STEPBROTHER

WE THOUGHT HE WAS SOME KIND OF KING

BECAUSE HE HAD BIG CASTLE.

YOU'LL HEAR NEVER BEFORE TOL ACCOUNTS OF LIFE WITH ELVIS,

TOLD BY HIS CLOSEST RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.

HE W VERY LONELYAN,

BUT HE WANTED PEOPLE WITH HIM.

HE NEEDED NURTURING FROM WOMEN.

MEMPHIS LEGES REMEMBER

ELVIS IN HIS EARLY YEARS.

THE RULE WAS,

YOU CAN'T GROOVEO RA MUSIC.

STATUS QUOTE SAYS YOU JUST CAN'T DO THAT.

YOU'EET THE WON

WHO INTRODUCED LISA MARIE PRESLEY TO MICHAEL JACKSON.

I BLAME MYSELF FOR THE OLE THING.

YOU'LL DISCOVER THE PRESLEYS' GREATEST JOYS,

AS WELL AS THEIR SADDEST MOMENT.

WHEN I WALKED IN AND LISA SAID DADDY'S DE

W WHAT T.

ALL THIS AND MORE TO COME ON- FAMOUS FAMILIES.

ILILIE

♪ HEY, HEY ♪

♪ IN THE FAMILY ♪

♪ OOOOOH, YEAH ♪

S:

ELS AARON PRESLEHAS BECOME SUCH A CULTURAL ICON,

THAT IT IS EASY TO FORGET THAT HE HAD A FAMILY JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.

IF YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW EVERYTHING ABOUT THE KING,

HIM LIKE HIS FAMILY.

ONE W

WE'LL HEAR FROM ELS'

RS,

FRIENDS AND RETIVES ABOU WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO LIVE WITH

ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL FIGURES

IN AMERICAN MUSICAL HISTORY.

WE WILL HEAR HOW PRISCILLA AND LISA MARIE ARE KEEPING HIS

MEMORY AND LEGACY ALIVE.

YOU'LL DISCOVER THAT THERE IS MORE TO THE PRESLEYS

THAN A CURLING LIP, A WIGGLING HIP

AND A MANSION CALLED GRACE.

♪ WELL SINCE MY BABY LEFT ME ♪

STILL TODAY, AMERICA'S ROCK ROYALTY REMAINS--

HIS QUEEN, PRISCILLA PRESLEY.

HI HIS CALE, ACAN

U,

THE MEMPHIS MAFIA.

WAS TAME COMPARED WHAT THEY DO NOW.

I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING EXCEPT JIGGLE.

nouncer: As farthe eye can see

ers are on hand for the return of

Elvis Presley toississippi,

He is gaining popularity

u

y.

WAING ARTIST,

A MESMERIZING PEORMER.

EVENTUALLY, A ROCK 'N RO MO

I LIKE TO LIVE DNGERSLY.

HONEY, I'M GOING TO LEAVE THE DRIVING TO YOU.

THE MAN WHO WOULD MAKE HIS FIRST MILLION BY AGE 2

S:

CAME FROM POOR AND HUMBLE BEGINNINGS.

KNOWN AS A SHOTGUN HOUSE. SMALL SO

HIS PARENTS, GDYS AND VERNON, WERE FARM WORKS.

AR

WHO ED DURG CHILDBIRTH.

ELVIS WAS EN RAISED AS AN ONLY CHILD.

ALL OF HER HOPES AND DREAMS BWERE EMBODIED IN ELVIS.

SHE , FYOU'RE SCIAL.

YOU'RE GOING TO BE SOMEBODY.

THAT MOTIVATED ELVIS AND POINTED HIM IN THE RIGHT DECTI.

CENTEREDD UNCLE VERNON LOV

LYY

AROUND HIM.EL

HIS FATHER WAS FOUND GUILTY OFORGERY.

FARMS STATE PENITENTIARY. YET

VERNON SOLD A HOTO HIS BOSS, ORVILLE BEAN,

■

O .

HEAVE VERN A CHECK FOR FOUR DOLLARS.

BUT VERNON THOUGHT HE SHLD T.

HE GOT TOGETHER WITH GLADYS' BROTHER, TRAVIS,

AND THEY DECIDED TO RGE E CHECK

TO STE FOURTEEN DOLLARS FORTY DOLLA.

TOASH THCHK,

LYTHE NEXT W

THEY WERE ARRESTED.

MR. PRESLEY WAS AS STRAIGHT AS AN ARROW.

HE COUN'T STAND NOT TO HAVE SOME FOOD.

THERE'S NO JOBS.

THSTRUGGLES OFLVIS ANHIS FALY,

AS WAS THE CASE WITH MANY PEOPLE

HE TLY WANTED TO DO SOMETHING

W.

Narrator: VERNON'S TIME IN PRISON,

STRENGTHED THE BOND BETWN ELVIS AND HIS MOTHER.

I THK THE BOND BETWEEN ELVIS AND GLADYS

WAA C

THEY HAD A BEAUTIFUL RELATIONSHIP, SWEET, SINCERE.

Narrator: BEUSE THERE CLOSENESS

TOTECT ELVIS

AM

SHE WOULD FOLLOW HIM TO SCHOOL EN HE WAS SIXTEEN YEARS OLD

TO MAKE SURE HE WAS OK.

IT'S ROUGH HAVING YOUR MOTHER WALK YOU TO SCHOOL

HE WAS A MHER'S BOY.

Narrator: ELVIS SUFFERED FROM NIGHTMARES AND SLEEP WALKING.

A PROBLEM THAT CONTINUED THROUGHOUT HIS LE.

THIS WENT ON FOR MANY YEARS AND INTO HIS ADUHOOD.M.MOUS

ELVIS REQUESTED THE SAME FROM OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS AND

TRUSTED IENDS WHO WORKED FOR HIM.

C C

THE FIT TI IT HAPPED,

I WAS ASLEEP AND HE JUMPED UP INTO BED

AND PULL THE COVER OFF.

OVER HEAD.

HCHC

HG

HIS MOTHER SAID THAT WHENEVER HE DOES THIS,

GET TO A LIGHT. TURN IT ON, AND HE WILL WAKE UP.

AS I WAS TRYING TO GET TO THE LIGHT,

HE HIT ME IN THEAW.

I FINALLY GOT THE LIGHT ON

AND SAID THAT I DON'T NEED TO DO THIS.

HE WAS LAUGHING HARD, HE WAS ON THE FLOOR.

A STRONGELIGIO UPBRINGING HELPED SHAPE ELVIS.

R TOOK HIM TO CHURCH A REVIVAL MEETINGS

ON A REGULAR BASIS.

ELVIS SANG WITH ENTHUSIASM.

ELVIS BELIEVED IN GOD. HE BELIEVED STRONGLY IN PRAYER.

IN LIVING HIS LIFE AS THE RD WANTED HIM T

THE PRESLEY FAMILY MOVED FROM PCE TO PLACE

REREIN SEAR.

ELVIS MOVED AROUND A LOT AS A CHILD.

THE MAIN REASON WAS BECAUSE OF THEIR FINANCIAL TUATION.

THE PRESLEYS WERE VERY POOR.

AS A YOUTH, ELVIS LIVED IN OVER A DOZEN PLACES.

ONE HOME WAS NEAR AN L BLK NEIGHBORHOOD,

KNOWN AS SHAKE-RAG.

INISSISSIPPI

SHAKE-RE

AT ELVIS GREW UP CLOSE TO.

I THINK THE IMPORTANT THING ABOUT SHAKE-RAG,

ANTHERE WERE A LOT OF THEM IN THE SOUTH,

IS THAT AN IMPRESSIONABLE ELVIS PRESLE...

LEARNED NOT ONLY ABO HIS FAMI,...

WE GREW UP IN A SEGREGATED SOCIETY-- FAMIL:

ESCIALLYT THAT TIME.

YOU DIDN REALLY GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS.

ELVIS WAS EXPOSED TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY-

TO THEIR MUSIC, WHICH HE LOVED.

MAN

TO BE THERE FOR THEEATREE GOSPEL SINGI. AMAMIL

ELVIS LIKED THEIR STYLE BECAUSE THEY WERE SO UNINHIBITED.

YOU COULD TELL THEY REALLY PUT FEELING INTO IT.

I THINK ONE THE FIRST INFLUENCES ON ELVIS

TO INCORPORATE THE BLACK STYLE

OFXPRESSING ESWHEN THEY SING,

A.

Narrator: WHEN ELVIS WASN HIGH SCHOOL,

HE WOULD OFTEN VISIT SHAKE-RAG

AND LOCAL GOSPEL CHURCHES

HE BEGAN IMITATING THE MUSIC D DRESS STYLES

OF POPULAR BLACK MUSICIANS.

SUCH AS: LITTLEICHARD,

MUDDY WATERS

ANBB KELEL

ELS VES Y,

HEHE P

HOW WE DRESSED, HOW WE WORE OUR HAIR.

HE HAD THE NERVE TO WEAR A PINK SHIRT IN 1954.

1954 ALSO SAW THE RELEASE OF ELVIS' FIRST PROFESSION RECORD.

"THAT'S ALL RIGHT"

THE SONG'S MIX OF SULTRY BLUES AND COUNTRY RHYTHM,

WAS ANNS T T HIT WITH TEENS EVERYWHERE.

ELVIS CREPT DOWN ON IS THING WITH HIS MARTIN GUITAR,

UNAMPLIFIED, ACOUSTIC, AND I HEARD THIS UNIQUE CUT

OF ARTHUR

"THAT'S ALL RIGHT .

THAT TNG HAD BEEN OUT SEVEN, EIGHT YEARS BEFORE.

T

VEEEN LOOKING FOR.

I MEAN THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR,

IS AEEL LIKET.

SAM MADE A NICE TAPE OF "THAT'S ALL RIGHT"

AND TOOK IT TO A D.J. IN MEMPHIS, DEWEY PHILLIPS.

DEWEY LOVED THE SONG, ANELELNE NIGHT.

THPHONE ARD RINGING OFF THE WALL.

HE PLAYED O.

A LOT OF THE PEOPLE CALLING IN,

WERE TRYING TO FIND OUT IF ELVIS WAS A WHITE MAN

OR AN AFRICAN-AMERIC.

THERE WAS STILL SEGREGATION AT THIS TIME.

YOU HAD WHITE RADIO STATIONS

AND AFRO-AMERICAN RADIO STATIONS.

THE RULE W,

YOU N GROOVE TO RACE MUSIC.

AND IT STIRS UP ALL KINDSLY S OF EMOONS IN YOU.

WHITGIRLS COULD NOT DANCE TO RACE MUC

IF A BLACK PERFOER WAS ON STAGE.

THAT WAS THE BOOT.

SO WHEN ELVIS CAME, THEY HAD THE GUTS TO DO THIS.

I THINK THAT IONE OF THEFOX FL REASONS HE WASUCA BIG HIT.

WHEN WE RETURN...

W COULERTROLIM.

T

I'M NOT GOING TO BRAG ABOUT WHAT I DO.

ALL THIS ANDUCH MORE WHEN FAMOUS FAMILIES RETURNS.

Narrator: THE YEAR WAS 1954.

MO

ELS PRESLEY INTRODUCED A W STYLE OF MUSIC

TH HISST RECORD

"THAT'S ALL RIGHT"

IT WAS A HFOFOFAFAMO SS MADE HIM A STA

THENIS FANS COULD SEE THE PRESLEY'S MOVES.

HIS FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE WAS ON THE LISIANA HAYRIDE,

IC OWCASED LIVE PERFORMANCES.

WH ELVIS CAME

TH THEY WERE CONCERNED IT

FOR THE

C SCENE.

ONE NIGHT WHEN ELVIS GOT ON WITH ANPPEARANCE,

THE FANS AND YOUNG KIDS WENT WILD.

Announcer: He'snly nineteen years old. He has a new distitive style.

Elvis Presley.

Elvis, how are you this evening?

Elvis: ne, how are you, Sir.

Announcer: You all geared up th your ba

to let us hear your ngs?

Elvis: I'd like to say how happy we a to bdown here.

We're going to do song for you that goes something like this.

Elvis: ♪ Oh Baby, Baby, Baby Baby..♪

♪ Come back baby, I wanna play ♪

house with you ♪

♪ou may go to parties ♪ ♪ Youay go tschool ♪

♪ Y may have a pink Cillac ♪

AFTHAT HAPPENED,

HOW.

AIW

ELVIS'EXT JOR APPEAR

FAFAMISS

WAS AT NASHVILLE'S GRAND OLE OPRY.

BUT THIS TIME, HE WAS MET WITH A FAR DIFFERENT REPTION.

HE WAS SCARED TOEATH HE WAS NINETEEYEARS OLD.

THE GRANOLRY WAS PROBABLY E MO PRESTIGIOUS PLACE

THAT A COUNTRY MUSICIAN OR A ROCK-A-BIL SINGER COD PLAY.

HE WENT OUT THERE AND AYED "BE MO OF NTUCKY".

FAFA.

♪..OF KENTUCKY KEEP ON SHINING ♪

♪

♪ IT WAS ON ONE MOONLIGHT NIGHT, STARS INING BRIGHT ♪

♪ WHISPER OHI, LOVE SAID GOODBYE ♪

KE ON SHINING ♪

♪LUE

♪

COME , AND E

IT ONLY GOT MODERATE APPLAE. IT WASN'T WHAT ELVIS EXPECTED.

HE WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED.

MIT WA TO

E

GO BACK DRIVING A TRUCK.

LU

ELVIS IGNORED THIS ADVIC.

THERWAS NO DBT THAT HIS ER.

NNNNL

Anuncer: As far as the eye can see

a press of eited youngsters are on hand for the return of

Elvis Presley to Misssippi, where he was bor

A phenomenon recalling Mar Mooe's debut ishow business,

UE

. Teenager theater history.lel in

IT WASN'T EASY BEING A RK 'N RO REL IN 1950'S AMERICA.

ELVIS TOOK SOME S FROM

FROM THE GUYS ACROSS THE STREET THE H

AND OTHER PEOPLE?

NO, THEY'RE JUST JEALOUS.

THON'TAVE WH H

F

THEYALL CRAZYON CARE.

MIMILY C TOWNSANNED ELVIS' .

ROCK 'N ROLL INNK JERSEY CITY?

THE GOVERNMENTELELD I THINK 'SUST GREA TO S.

WHAT DO YOINK ABOUT THE MAR OF JERSEY CITY

I SQUARE.

WH DYOU THINK?

ROCK 'N ROLLS COOL AND YOU KN IT.

AMA?

AGAINST ROCKN ROLL

FAMO

RERE

.

THAT'S

CONFRO WITH..

.

MI

WHITE AND BLACK YOUNG PELE LAHED ONTO I

REGARDLESS OCRITICISM.

L

D HIS FA WERNO PREPARED TO NAGE HUCSS.

VERNON W BARELY LITETE.

AUST 1955, AN EX-CARNIVAL PROMOTER, COLOL TOM PARKER,

LKED VERNON IN SIGNI HIM ON AS A SPECIAL ADVISOR.

PARE

BUSINESS MANAGER.

USUS

MRS. PREEYIDN'T WA HESON HU BY SOMEONE

WHO DIDN'T CARE FOR HIM.

PARKER WAS A CLEVEAND RUTHLESS NEGOTIATOR.

HE BECAMA COROVERSIAL FIN ELS'

ELVIS RESPECTED HI

ELVIS GR UP DIRT PR AND MILLIOLLS WORTH OF TALENT

AND THAT HE COULD KEIM A MILLION LLARS.

AND HE DID.

COLONEL PARKER W A THAT WAS FINE WITH ELVIS.

WHEN YOU AYOU ARE GOINFIGHTS,

BUNE GREATEST MANERS EVER.

AS ONE OTHEO

I'M NOT HC

ALL DO IS A GO.

Narrator: NOT EVERYONE AGREED WITH THE COLONEL'S WAY

OF DOING BUSINESS.

OF ELVIS' EARNINGS.

TY-FPET

THE LAST TEN YEAHCELVI LIFE, PARKER HAD FIFTY PERCENT

E

CELFAMOUS FAMS: PRESHCANDS

THERE A TENDENCY TO GIVE COLONEL PARKER TOO MUCH EDIT.

ELVIS WAS THE ONE.

O

HE WAS IT, OA STIC

HE WAS THE CST THING.

D FOX FA CELFAMOUS FAMS:

AY FOFO

THAT THE COLONEL MADE ELVIS.

MY RESPONSE IS, TELL HIM TO MAKE ANOTHER ONE.

rrat: SINCE THE COLONEL PTHE

F D TA

S

TO HISAREER AND HAPPINESS. FOFO WOULCOME AT GREAT EXE

ELVIS ED TPL ORSEAS.

GER.

HE WANTETO PLAY ENGLAND.

HE WANTED TO PLAY JAPA

HE NEVER PLAYED OVERSEAS, EXCEPT FOR THREE GIGS IN CANADA.

ELVIS DIDN'T KNOW THAT PARKER WAS AN ILLEG ALIEN.

THE COUNTRY,

E

FA

BECT

SO PARKER TOLD ELVIS THAT THESE FOREIGRS WL RIP OFF

ELVIS BOUGHT IT BECAUSE HE DIDN'TNOW ANY BETTER.

HE MISSED AN OPPORTUNITY THAT HE DESPERATELY WTED TO DO.

IT'S SAD.

PREY

WAS ONE OF THE WEALTHIEST AND MOST POPULAR MEN IN AMERICA.

ANS:S:NG HE WAED.

T

BUT HE VALUED THCOMFORT D STABILITY OF FAMILY THE MOST.

FAMILY WAS EVERYTHING TO ELVIS.

THEY KEPT HIM GROUNDED.

HE SOUGHT ADVICE FROM THE FAMILY.

HE WANTED THEM AROUND ALL THE ME.

ELVIS TAD FAMILY VALUES COME .

EY A THE ONEYOU CAN TRFAFATHE MOST.THE P P S

THEY WILL HELP YOU WITH YOUR PROBLEMS A C CHAPORT YOU,

AND ALWAYS BELIEVE WT YOU DO.

FAMILY WAS VY IMPORTANT TO ELVIS,

AS HE DEMONSTRATED WITH H

AND THE WAY THAT HE PTIS DAD AROUND.

HIS FRIENDS AS W

S MOTH AS PL

VERY TIVE.DS

HE WANTED TO BE LOVED.EOR EVERHING HE DID.USUS

COMING UP...

ELVIS' FAME TAKES IT'S TOLL ON HIS MOTHER GLYS.

SHE WOULD GET VERY UPSET.

WHEN "FAUS FAMILIES"Y'RE BY 17 THE SOVIETHE PREUNIK

SFU

SPACE SATELLITE.

O

AND ELVIS PRESLEY'S CARE WAS IN HIGH GEAR.

WITH RORD SAS MOY, H BOND

A SOHERN COLONEL MANSION BUILT IN 1939 AND NAMED AFTER

THE PREVIOUS OWNER'S GAT AUNT GRACE.

ELGRANDMOTHER, MINN MAY PRE,

AUNTASH,

UNCLE EARL,

AND SOME OF THIS CLOSE FRIENDS TO MOVE IN WITH HIM.

Report: E YOU GOING TO KEEP GRACELAND?

DO YOU PLAN TO MOVE FROM MEMPHIS?

NO SIR, I HA NO PLS TO LEAVEEMPH.

GRAND ASG IAN.

LIFE LON

WE WAS SURROUNDED ANOTECTED IM.

WHENLVIS BOUGHT GRACELAND, I JU STARTED HIGH SCOL

METIMETER FOOTBALL GAMES S:

PAY AN CHANN PEOPLE COME UP.OULA

IT WAS USUAL T

BUT IT BECAME THE "I THING

S... IT WAS GRELN

THE LEY FALY WERE PRACTICAL JOKERS.

S HAD A MYNER BIRD THAT LT

R

TALKED QUITE WELL.

ONE NIGHT WHEN ELVIS CAME IN THE BACK DOOR,

AND METHIN "TURN TSE LITS O".

AN

X NNNN I

WHEN HE LAUGHED, WE WOULD FALL DOWN ON THE FLOOR UGHING.

ED HAVING A GOOD TIM

IT W A FAMILY TYPE ATMPHED WITH. AROUND G

AT AE

HE LOVEDAVING GRACELAN

IT W HIS FAVORITE.

IT WASIS FAVORITE RETREAT.

HE WOULD GO UPSTAI

AND

S.

ELHAD CAMERAS ALL OVERHE HSE

HE COULD SEE ERYONE.

LIFE WAS TROUBLE FE FOR THOS WHO LIVED WITHLV.

HE WOUATCH WHAT EVER

ELVIWAKIND OF LI IT NER RNED ON YOU,

FA

YOU VER GOT COLD

YONEFOX T HUNGRY...

THE GATES OF GRACELA,YOU ULD

HE WAS ALSO LAUNCHING HIVIE CAREER.

CT.X E.

HIS DAD VETO HIS VERY FIRSM,

TT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENEIN.

G VEF OV OF THAT,

BUT RNON TOOHIM,

AND THINK ELVIS GOT THE G THERE.

HOVER, HE S IMMEDIATELY LOANED OUTFOX STUDIO A VE

VE ME TEN,

A CIVIL WAR WESTERN ABOUT FAMILY CONFLICTS.

Elvis: ♪ Tell me you areine ♪

Movirrat: Out of the Great Southwest comes the sensational adventure

ELe girl they ught over.

loved s brother, b also lovehis her's girl.FA

I KNOW YOU AND KATHY USED TO BE KIND OF FO OF EACH OTHER,

AGAINST EITHER ONE OF US NOW, HAVE YOU?

S

WHICH IMPRSED HA

TO AONTRACT

FOR LOVE ME NDER.

CLEARLY SHOWED THAT ELVIS D ANCTING ABILITY.

X MI VIS D NOT WANTTO PROVE, TOING IN HLYAMO INTEIEW IN1

AFR HE HAD DE SCREENSTTEWER SA

IN YOUR MOVIES?"

I JUST D A SEENTEST WITH BURT NCRUEAY DON'T

FO

AND TH PDUCERSANAGER, LONEL PARKERHC

THMI C"

INSI THAT HIS MOVIE FANS EXPECTED HIM TO SING,

ELVIS RELUCTANTLY COMPLIED.

MI me ♪

♪ H-honey, let me ♪

to a better ho ♪

ABOUT NGININOVIES.EALLYES: T WAS THATLEAS

I THINK THAT WAS COLONEL'S IDEA.

HIS FIRSTHREE MOVIES WERE BOX OFFICE HITS.

ONLY ADDING TO HIS SKYROCKETING POPULARY.O

ICALLYELS' FAME TOOK A HEAVY TOLL

FAMO

FAMI MOTHER ADYS

GLADYS WAS A TERRIBLE

IT W RLLY AN APPROPRIATE RESPONSE FOR HER.

NVIRONME,

ANSHE SAW HER SON

SHE S TERRIBLY FRIGHTENED SHE COULD RE EVEN IMAGINE.

EVERY TIME HE TOOK A TRIP, EVERY TIME HE WENT ON A PLANE.

WHEN HE DIED IN THE MOVIES, SHE CRIED UNCONTROLLLY.

AND E FA WERE TEARING: S CLOTHES OFF,EN S WA

IT WORRIEDERPERATELY. GET A

SHE WOULD GET VERY UPSET.

S

NNE'D SAY, OFOSG ELVIS,

H, T

AND SHE DIDN'T REALLY KNOW HOW COPE WITH I

SO SHE TURNED TO DRINKING.

Narrator: GLADYS PRESLEY'S DRINKING

EVENTUALLY LEAD TO HER CONTRAING ACUTHEPATITIS.

MOUF

FA F

YET HE RUSHED HO FROM CHANNNCED TRAINING T

SHE DIE,

ON AUGUST 14, 1958, AT THE AGE OF 46.

ELVIS AND S WERE DEVASTATED.

FAAFR THE FUNERAWAS OVER,

EVYONE HAD GONE OUT OF T FUNERAL PARLOR,

EXCEPTLVIS AND OUR QUTETET.

THE CASKET,

REMER

KISSED H E

HE SD,

"MAMA, I'D GIVE EVY DIME HAVE,

AND GO BACK TO DIGGING JUSTLY CHAVE YOU BACK."

FAMORES

IT'S BEEN SA THAELVILT TOHANNELR A BETTER LIFE,SN'T E

FOR LONGER.

FOR ELVI THE DEATH OF S MOTHER HAPPED

WHEN HE WAS FACED WITH THE LONELINESS

OF BEING AWAY FROM HOME FOR THE FIRST TIME.

HEOU CONTINUEOS

FOR E RESTS LIFE.

NEXT...

RES

AND RETURNS WITHKINGCAL THREE NEW BROTHE.

HE KNEELS DOWN, AND HE SS,

'VE ALWAYSANTED LITTROTHERS,

AND NOW I HAVE THREE."

THISND MORE, WHEN "FAMOUS FAMIES" RETURNS.

rror: ON DECEMBER 19, 1957,

USAMHL

RYWHERE,

ELPRESLEWAS DRAFTE INTO THE U.S. ARMY

Radio annocer: His lucrative career interrupted foa while,

ElviPresley begi his military serce

and those celeated sidebns,

which weisrademark,

mita unirmity.

HE FALOF 1958,

MO

ELVID

SHORTLY AFTER HIS MOTHER'S DEATH.

DEDED GHT OFFT

THAT ELVIS WAS GOING TO GO IN AS A SOLDIER,

AND THAT HE DI'T WANT ANY SPECIAL TRTMENT.

BUT ELVIS DIDN'T WANT PERFOR

TO DTHAT.T

WANTETO GO IN AN A STRGHT G.I.

JUS

rrINTORMFOE TIME.OYS. ELEL

T ONLY DID HE THINK HIREER WOULD BE OVER,

BUT, MORE IMRTANTLY, HIS MOTH HAD JUST PASSED AWAY.

Lamar Fike: THE GRIEVING PROCESS, IN ITSELF,

NEVER GOT TOAKE PLACE.

HIS MOTHER DIED,

AND SIX SHIPPED TO GERMA.

SO HE TOOKNNNNFAMOUS FIE

THE.

SO, IT W HIS MHER, IT W HIS CARR,

F

HAHANN ELVIS' CUP OF TEA.

AND THE ARMY WN'T

DESPITE ELVIS' UAPPINESS WITHRMY LIFE,

HIS DID HAVE THE CFORT

OF HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY LIVING WITH HIM OFF-BASE

IN A RENTED HOUSE.

HE AHAE FREEDOM MEET DOZENS OGIRLS.

USUF

E MOST SCIAL OF ALL

NAMED ISCILLA.

HE SAID, "GO OVER TO WEISBATEAND CHECK HER OUT FOR ,

AND SEE HOW SHE LOOKS."

SO I WENT OVER TO THE SWIMMING PON WEISBATEN,

WHICH IS UP ON A HILL,

AND I SSR.

SHE CAME IWI HEHAIR IN NGLETS,

I INTRODUCED THEM SH TTTO EACH OTHER,SE.HANN

AND THEY SORT OF HIT IOFF D STARTED TALKING.

ELVIS WASN'T THE ONLY PRESLEY DANG.

WHENIS FATHER VERNON WAS LIVING WITH ELVIS IN GERMA,

DEE STANLEY,HE M, AND,

A MARRIED WOMAN WITH THREE YOUONS.

WHILE WEERE LIVI IN GERMANY,

ELVIS WAS INERMA,

MY MOM WANTED TO MEET

AND SHE WAS NOT ABLE TH

TO MEET HIM.

SHE MET VERNON.

WAS SMITTEN...

BYHIS BEAUTIFUL, BLOND-HEADED GIRL

FROM CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE.

WAS AN ALCOHOLIC,

AND THE WE OCCH...

START KNOCKING THKIDS AROUND.

SHE MET VERNON, TH FELL IN LOVE,

MOM PUT ME, BILLY, AND DAVID, AND HERSELF ON A PLANE,

AND WE CAME BACK TTHE STATES.

MY.

Narrator: IN959, ELVIS AND VERNON RETURNED HOME

.

FAFA

dianunr:

FAt m of the wie

fails toaunt tse hearty rock-n-roll enthussts

S

as Sergeant Elvis Presley

arrives at New Jersey's McGuire Air Force Base.

Homecoming, after serving hiuntry

for 18 months in Germany.

TV spokesman: I'D LIKE TO WELCE U HO

FROM ERYBODY IN MEMPHIS ANTHE SOUTH.

WELL, THANK YOU.

YOU'LL NEV KNOW HOHAPPY AM TO BE HERE.

SOMEBODY ASKED ME WHAT I MISSED ABOUT MEMPHIS,

HEHE PS TE ELELFA E STANLEY WAS DIVORCED,

AND READY TO BEGIN A NEW LIFE WITH ELVIS' FATHER.

IN 1960, VERNON AND DEE MARRIED.

AT FIRST, VIS FOUND IT HARD

TO AEPT THE IDEA OF ANYONE REPLACING HIS MOTHER.

BECAUSE HE WAS LITTLE RECTANT ABOUT MY MOTHER. TO D AND V

BUT OVER THE YEARS,

THEY DEVOPED A GOOD, SOLID RELATIONSHIP.

X X

TO THE POINT THAT WHEN WE WERE LIVING AT GRACELAND,

SHE REQUESTED THAT WE HAVE A HOUSE BUILT BEHIND GRACELAND.

SHE RESPECTED ELS' SPACE. NNNN

IN SPITE OF HIS RESERVATIONS ABOUT HIS EPMOTH,

ELVIS WENT OUTF HIS WAY

TO MAKE HIS NEW LITTLE BROTHERS

IKE PART OF THE PRESLEY FAMILY.

MY BROTHERS AND MYSELF GOT TO GRACELAND IN 1960.

WE WENT THROUGH THE GATES,

THROUGH THERE,

P

WE THOUGHT "OH, MY GOD,"

BECAUSE VERNON AND MY MOM HAD BEEN TALKING ABO

YOUR NEW BIG BROTHER,

AND SOOUT THIS GUY WAS SOME KD OF KING SOMETHING,

USE HE

Re R HE CES RIGHT OVE TO WHERE I'M STANDG,

D HE KNEELS WN, AND, UH...

HE SAYS, "I'VE ALWAYS WANTED LITTLE BROTHS,

viStanley: THE NEXT DAY WHEN WE GOT UP, ELVIS ITING FOR US,

TOOK US OUT IN THE BACKYARD,ES

AND THERE RE THREEATS, THREE OF EVERY TOY ANY KIDY .

ITAS A VULLTH,

D I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT.

SO, FROM THAT MOMENT ON,

ALI WANTM.

STANLEY BROTHE DCOVERED THERE WEY ADVANTAGES

TO BEINGBERS THEREEY FIL

WE DID GET A LOT OF ATTEION

ING DRIV TO SC,

I.

Billy anley: I NOTICED THAT A LOT OFUSUS FCHERD THE KIDS

STARTED PAYING A LOT OF ATTENTION TO ME

BECAUSE THEY SD, "THIS IS ELVIS' BROTHER."

THEY STARTED ASKING FOR TOGRAPHS.

Rev. Rick Stley: EVERYBODY WOULD USYOU TO GET TO ELVIS,

AND NOBODY USING ME, HC

I'VE BEEN SELLING ELVIS' AUTOGRAPH FOR FIVE BUCKS PIECE

A SPECIAL PLACE IN H HEA

YET HE STILL HADX

FOR THE GIRL HE MET IN GERMANY,

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AS SOON AS SHEURNED 16,

ELVIS ASKED HER TO MOVE TO HIS HOMETOWN MEMPHIS.

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IN A SEPARATH

WITH HIS FATHER AND MOTHER.

VIS WAS REAL GENTLEMAN,

AND HE WENT TO HER FATHER

AND SAID, "I'LL TAKE CARE OF HER.

I LOVE HER DEEPLY,

AND WHEN SHE'S OLD ENOUGH, THEN WE'LL BECOME A COUPLE."

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THERE WAGIRLS EVERHERE.

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AND THE PARTIES DID STOP.

SHE WATHE RST WOMAN,

THAT ELVISOOKED AT THE REST OF THE GROUP, AND...

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ANBEING AROU ELVIS WAS COOL.

WHEN ,

ELVIS WAS AT T CENTER OF THE ACTION.

Rev. Rick Stanle ELVIS WAS A BIG KID.

WHEN WE'D PLAY FOOTBALL,

"RICK, GO OUT FOR A PA"

AND WHEN YOUE GOING OUT FOR A PASS, YOU' LOOKINGACK,

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TIMES RESY FAMILY.

VIS HARETUED FROM GERMANY WITH THREE NEW BROTHERS,

AND THGIRL OF HIS DREAMS.

FONOW

COMING UP...K P PRE

VIS RETURNS TO HOLLYWO.

ELVIS MAKIA MILLIODOLLS .

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IT'S NOT TRUE!

( crowd laughing )

WHILE ELVIS EASILY FACED HIS COMPETITION

IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY,

HIS FILM CAREER DID NOT FARE SO WELL.

AFTER ELVIS RETURNED FROM GERMANY,

THE SCRIPTS, SONGS, AND PRODUCTION VALUES OF HIS MOVIES

STEADILY DECLINED IN QUALITY.

Movie narrator: Yes, America's most talked-about,

written-about, ex-G.I.

is here to show the world there's been some changes made

by that rugged tour of duty with the battling tankers.

See him swing out with his buddies

to take st Germany by storm.

It's Elvis Presley, with his co-star, Juliet Prouse,

the can-can girl who proves that she certainly can.

Juliet: Elvis is back.

■

RIGHT PRIOR TO HIM GOING TO GERMANY,

COLONEL PARKER MADE A BRILLIANT MOVE.

HE MADE LONG-TERM NTRACTS WITH A COUPLE OF THE STUDIOS,

PARAMOUNT AND MGM.

S:S: T

WHILE THESE CONTIND

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ELVIS WOULD CONTINUE TO WORK

FOFO

WHEN HE RETURNED FROM THE ARMY,

THAT ELVIS WOULD BE GIVEN.

Movie narrator: Elvis Presley as Pacer, who became a legend in the West.

♪ ho-si-do ♪

♪ stay single and save a dollar ♪

Movie narratgeance, ( gunshot )

of the land being challenged by White man and Red.AHA

THE SI ALL THESE COOKIE-CUTTER DEALS

WITH MGM AND PARAMOUNT AND HAL WALLIS,

AND THE IN FORMAT.

I THINK ELVIS THOUGHT WHEN HE CAME BACK,

THAT HE WOULD CONTINUEOING OD QUALITY FILMS SUCH AS:

CE.

THHAHAHETRACTS WENT DN LI,

THE SHORTER THE LESS THE CO-STARS,

THE WEAKER THE SCRIPTS,

UNTIL ELVIS WAS JUST BORED SILLY.

Hours and hours of Heaven that just slide on down to Hell,X X A

or wheit is!

how

You're wiljust like me.

I THINK IN THE LE FIFTIES, EARLY SIXTIES,

S:S:

ELVIS REALLY ENJOYED MAKING THE MOVIES.

IT WAS EXCITING,

HE GOT TO MEET OTHER ENTERTAINERS.

A LOT OF THE BIG STARS THATERE IN AWE OF HIM

WOULCLARK GABLE WASLVIS ON THE SOME OF THE SETS,

AND HE'D COME SEE

AND VARIOUS ARTISTS OF THAT NATURE,

FLRING ABOUT ETING SOME OF THEM.UST D

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Jerry Schilling: I THINK HE ENJOYED BEING ON THE SETS,

AND THERE WERE SOME MOVIES HENJOYED

BECAUSE HE LIKED THE CO-STARS,

AND, OF COURSE, THERE WAS KING CREOLE,

ICH HE LIKED ALL THE WAY AROUND.

BUT, I THINK A LOT OF THE JOKING AROUND WE DID

THAT WAS SPURRED BY ELVIS, MI

AND THE PRACTICAL JOKES AND STUFF,

WAS BECAUSE G

TO GET HIS MIND WORKING IN THOSE SCRIPTS.

LATER ON, WHEN HE STARTED DOING RES

WHERE HE WOULD BEAT UR A GUY THEN SING TO HIM,

■qI THINK ELVIS GOT BORED WITH .

♪ With one burning glance ♪EH

♪ From her eye? ♪

AT ONE POINT AROUND 1966 HE SAID,

"THEAST RIPT, I WAS A RACE CAR DRIVER,

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I'M NOT DOG ANYME OF THIS."M

NOW

OR HE COULDN'T HAVE WORKED AT ALL.FAFA

Narrator: MANY CLOSEST TO ELVIS SAID THAT

ELVIS PLACED TOO MUCH TRUST IN COLONEL PARKER,

AND THAT COLONEL PARKER, IN TURN,

PLACED MONEY ABO QUALITY.

I THINK ITMOUSLY IMPORE

WHER FROM,

HCHC

HIS PARENTS WERE COTTON PICKERS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.FO

HE CAME FROM ABSOLUTELY NOTHING,

AND THAT FEELING STAYED WITH HIM HIS WHOLE LIFE

AND MOTIVATED HIM TO MAKE A LOT OF CHOICES

FROM AN ARTISTIC POINT OF VIEW. MIMILY

THEY WERE UNFORTE MONEY,

AND THDavid Stley: PEOPLE TALK ABOUELVIS AND HIS MOVIE CAREER,

AND THEY WONDER WHY HE KEPT MAKING FILMS

INSTEAD OF DOING CONCERTS,

THROUGHOUT THE SIXTIES.

LAT COL

",

COLONEL NEVER DID THAT."

UNDERSTAND THIS:

ELVIS WAS MAKING A MILLION DOLLARS A PICTURE...

IN THE SIXTIES,

AND HE WAS DOING THREE A YEAR.

ALTHOUGH THEY WERE THE SAME SCENARIO EACH TIME,

THEY WERE SILLY, BUT HIGHLYUCCESSFUL.S:

I BELIEVE

Pa:

HEY HG

IN ALL THESE STUPID MOVIES,

CLAMBAKE? COME ON.

vie narrator: It's Elvis, cooking up a storm of entertainment in...

CC

Clamke.

FO

Elvis throws the wildest beach party

since they invented the bikini and the beat.

IT'S SAD, HE WAS FRUSTRATED, HE KNEW ABOUT IT,

AND STILL HE WAS ON IS TREADMILL...

A TREADMILL THAT, I THINK, CHARACTERIZED

THE LAST TEN OR FTEEN YEARS OF HIS CAREER...

A TREADMILL OF MEDNEY.

New speaker: I THINK HE REACHED A POINT, FA IN ALL THE MOVIES,

OF WANTING TO MOVE ON,

HAHA BUT BETTER PROJECTS DID NOT COME ALONG.

Narrator:

AFTER 13 YEARS, D 31 FILMS,

ELVIS ESLEY'S MOVIE CAREER S ON THE WANE.

FO

FANN

OF HIS ACTING CAREER,

ELVIS PRESLEY CONTINUED TO BE

IEIEHE

A POPULAR AND SUCCESSFUL PERFORMER.

RETURNS...EN "FAMOUS"

NG TAKES AN

PRISCILLA AND ELVIS DATE FOR A LONG TIME,

,

IT'S A DIFFICULT LIFE.

LATER, THE QUEEN INHERITS THE THRONE...

AND BUILDS AN EMPIRE.

IEIE

MOSTR

TAKES HIS ONE AND ONLY TRIP TO THE ALTAR.

ELVIS PRESLEY HAD CERTAINLY COME A LONG WAY

BY THE TIME HE AND PRISCILLA WERE MARRIED,

BUT STARTING A FAMILY OF HIS OWN

SEEMED TO BE MORE THAN ELVIS COULD HANDLE.

TRUE, HIS WIFE PRISCILLA'S STRENGTH AND DETERMINATION

MADE THE BEST OF A VERY DEMANDING SITUATION.

BUT HOW LONG COULD SHE KEEP UP THE PACE

OF HIS DIFFICULT LIFESTYLE?

ESPECIALLY WITH A YOUNG DAUGHTER TO CONSIDER.

AND HOW LONG COULD ELVIS' KINGDOM LAST

DURING A DECADE OF DRUGS. DECADENCE AND DISCO?

US FAMILIES" CONTINUES,

MOMO

ELVIS EMBARKS IN A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY.

Patti Parry: HE ALWAYS WORE A JEWISH STAR AND A CROSS

BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT TO GET SHUT OUT OF HEAVEN

ON A TECHNICALITY.

YOU'LL ALSO LEARN ABOUT HIS DOWNWARD SPIRAL...

AND A TRAGIC OUTCOME.

IF ELVIS WOULD HAVE TAKEN CARE OF HIMSELF

LIKE HE TOOK CARE OF HIS FANS...

HE'D BE HERE TAY.

SO THAT THE PRINCESS COULD CLAIM HER INHERITANCE.AA

IT'S REMARKABLE TO REALIZE HOW CLOSE

THE PRESLEY FAMILY WAS TO SELLING GRACELAND.

EVEN 20 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH,

ELVIS LIVES ON.

Jerry Schilling: IF YOU JUST TAKE HIM FOR HIS BODY OF WORK,

HE'S THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PERSON OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

THE VIETNAM WAR WAS RAGING.

T THE

US FAMTS, FREE LOVE, AND WILD FASHIONS

WERE SWEEPING THE COUNTRY.

FOR ELVIS PRESLEY, ALMOST ANYTHING WAS POSSIBLE...

EVEN MARRIAGE.

Radio announcer: In Las Vegas, it's wedding bells

for the man who pr■ctically invented rock-n-roll...

Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu,

a friend of eight years standing.

The 32-year-old Mississippi boy

who started a new style of singing, gives his bride

a 20-karat diamond ring.

Now more a movie than a recording star,

Elvis met Priscilla when he was a G.I. in Germany,

and she, the daughter of a lieutenant colonel,

was a high school girl.

It's the first marriage for both.

David Stanley: IT WAS A PUBLIC RELATIONS MOVE.

I MEAN, IN 1967,

AN ELVIS PRESLEY WHO DIDN'T CUSS, SMOKE, DRINK OR LUST,

HAD AN UNTARNISHED IMAGE,

AND IT WASN'T REAL COOL TO HAVE A "LIVE-IN" GIRLFRIEND...

FOR ANYBODY, IN '67, ESPECIALLY ELVIS.

SO COLONEL PARKER SAID TO ELVIS,

"YOU EITHER NEED TO MARRY HER,

Patti Parry: PRISCILLA AND ELVIS DID DATE FOR A LONG TIME.

BUT, BEING IN SHOW BUSINESS, IT'S A DIFFICULTIFE.

I THINK THAT THEY BOTH WANTED TO MAKE SURE

THAT THIS WAS WHAT THEY BOTH WANTED.

THE FAMILY WAS VERY HAPPY FOR ELVIS

BECAUSE WE WANTED HIM TO BE HAPPY,

AND HE LOVED PRISCILLA, SHE LOVED HIM,

AND WE JUST WANTED HIM TO BE HAPPY,

LIKE ANYBODY ELSE.

New speaker: I THK PRISCILLA WAS, SIMPLY, VERY MUCH IN LOVE WITH ELVIS.

AND THE ELVIS PRESLEY THAT SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH WAS THE PERSON,

NOT THE PERFORMER.

PRISCILLA HAS ALWAYS SAID THAT THE ICON ON THE STAGE

WAS A PERSON SHE REAL DIDN'T KNOW.

VERY INTROSPECVE MAN

ET,

THAT ELVIS PRESLEY WAS,

AND SHE LOVED HIM VERY MUCH.

Narrator: FOR ELVIS AND PRISCILLA,

THE YEARS OF WAITING WERE FINALLY OVER.

AND NINE MONTHS LATER,

THE COUPLE EAGERLY AWAITED THE ARRIVAL OF THEIR FIRST CHILD.

ELVIS CALLED ME ON THE IERCOM,

AND HE SAID, "JERRY, DON'T GET EXCITED..."

HE WAS SO CALM... HE SAID,

"DON'T GET EXCITED, ST MEET US IN THE KITCHEN,

BUT IT'S TIMFOR PRISCILLA TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL."

I GO IN THE KITCHEN,

ELVIS IS IN THERE-- HE'S STILL REAL CALM--

AND I HEAR SOMEBODY OUTSIDE SAYING,

"ELVIS, I'VE GOTTA GO!"

AND PRISCILLA'S AT THE CAR.

AND OF COURSE, HISTORY HAS LISA MARIE NOW.

ON FEBRUARY 1, 1968,

THEIR ONLY CHILD, LISA MIE, WAS BORN.

Donna Presley Early: WHEN ELVIS AND PSCILLA D LISA MARIE,

HE WAS ABSOLUTELY...

THAT WAS HIS GREATEST CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT.

WHEN SHE FIRST CAME HOME,

HE CARRIED HER AROUND ON A PILLOW.

Rev. Rick Stanle HE LOVED LISA.

SO MANY TIMES, HE WOULD HAVE ME

GO AND GET HER OUT OF HER CRIB WHEN SHE WAS ASLEEP,

AND I WOULD BRING HER DOWN,

AND SET HER ON A COUCH AND PUT A BLANKET ON HER.

HE JUST WANTED TO WATCH HER SLEEP.

HE LOVED THAT CHILD.

HE REALLY, REA CARED ABOUT HER.

FOX

HE SAW HIMSELF...

IN HER.

THAT FREAKED HIM OUT SOMETIMES.

Narrator: ALTHOUGH ELVIS WAS LOVING, KIND AND GENOUS,

HE WAS NOT AN IDEAL FATHER.

David Stley: DIFFERENT PEOPLE RAISED LISA,

BECAUSE ELVIS DIDN'T TAKE HER TO MOVIES,

TO THE PARK DANCE LESSONS.

HCIDN'T SPEND THAT KIND OF QUALITY TIME WITH HER.

I DON'T THINK ELVIS' LIFESTYLE WAS CONDUCIVE TO CHILDREN.

HE WAS NOCTURNAL.

HE'D SEE LISA MARIE AT THREE IN THE MORNING.

BEFORE HE'D GO TO SLEEP TEN IN THE MORNING,

HE'D SEE HER.

I THINK ELVIS MADE A REAL EFFORT...

THE BEST HE KNEW HOW...

TO BE A GOOD FATHER.

Donna Presley Early: HE SPOILED HER,

THEP

QUITE ROTTEN, AS A MATTER OF FACT,

MOUS F

AND PRISCILLA WOULD HAVE TO PUT THE BRAKES ON A LITTLE.

HE WOULD SHOWER HER WITH VERY EXPENSIVE GIFTS.

WHEN LISA WAS FIVE-YEARS-OLD,

HE BOUGHT HER A FULL-LENGTH MINK COAT.

I ASKED HIM,

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD?"

New speaker: ELVIS WAOVERLY GENEROUS.

HE GAVE GIFTS FOR SOME KIND OF APPROVAL THAT HE NEEDED,

BECAUSE IF HE HAD AN ARGUMENWITH YOU,

HE'S COME UP TO YOU AND SAY,

"HERE, MYRNA, HERE'S A DIAMOND."

THAT WAS HIS WAY OF SAYING "I'M SORRY,"

AND IF YOU DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THAT,

THEN YOU DIDN'T UNDERSTAND HIM.

AND FAMILY MEMBERS. ELVIS' LEGENDARY GENEROSITY EXTENDED BEYHANNEL

David Stanley: ELVIS WAS BUYING A NEW CADILLAC,

AND AS HE WAS LOOKING AT THE CARS,

HE LOOKED OUT THE WINDOW,

AND THERE

LOOKING THROUGH THE .

IN HER EYES, YOU COULD SEE THAT SHE WAS DREAMING,

"GOSH, I WISH I HAD SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

I COULD NEVER BE SUCCESSFUL ENOUGH

TO GET SOMETHING LIKE THIS."

ELVIS SAW HER, AND WE ALL LOOKED AT HER,

AND HE SAID,

"GO GET HER."

SO I WENT OUT AND GOT HER,

AND I BROUGHT HER INSIDE,

AND ELVIS GAVE HER THE KEYS TO A BRAND NEW CADILLAC.

WELL, HER HUSBAND WAS THERE AS WELL,

AND HE GAVE HIM A CADILLAC.

LL, THE SON WAS THERE, TOO.

HE GAVE HIM A CADILLAC,

PUT HIM IN COLLEGE,

BOUGHT THE GUY A HOME,

AND GAVE HIM A J.

HC

BUT ALTHOUGH ELVIS WAS GENEROUS WITH HIS MONEY,

PRISCILLA SOON FOUND

THAT HIS AFFECTION WAS MORE DIFFICULT TO HOLD ON TO.

Rev. Rick Stanley: THE FIRST TRIP THAT I MADE WITH HIM,

WE WENT TO WASHINGTON D.C.,

AND WHEN I WALKED IN THE SUITE,

A GIRL WAS THERE.

I JUST KIND OF LOOKED AT HIM, AND, UH...

HE JUST KIND OF SAID,

"OH, OH, OH, YEAH..."

AND HE PULLS ME OVER TO THSIDE AND SAYS,

"I GOTTA TELL YOU A FEW THINGS."

IT WAS A SHOCK.

IT DIDN'T DIMINISH MY LOVE FOR HIM,

THE ADVERSE AFFECTF IT WAS, DI.

BEUSE OF SEEING THAT SO MUCH,

I WAS CONVINCED THAT THERE NEVEWAS SUCH THING

AS A HAPPY MARRIAGE.

PRISCILLA ALSO HAD TO COMPETE WITH ELVIS' ENTOURAGE,

AN ALMOST EXCLUSIVE BOYS' CLUB KNOWN AS...

"THE MEMPHIS MAFIA."

PATTI PARRY WAS THE ONLY FEMALE MEMBER.

Patti Parry: CAN YOIMAGINE LOOKING AFTER EIGHT ME

D BE MOTHER, SISTER, CONFIDANTE...

LISTEN TO THE GRUESOMEALES OF THEIR SOCIAL AND SEX LIVES.

THEY WOULDN'T LET GUYS NEAR ME,

WHICH WAS NOT SO GREAT.

THEY WERE MY B BROTHS.

THE CONSTANT PARTIES, TRIPS AND DISTRACTIONS

EVENTUALLY CREATED A STRAIN ON ELVIS' FAMILY AND FRIENDS.

AND MOST OF ALL...

ON HIS MARRIAGE.

AS FAR AS ELVIS WAS CONCERNED,

PRISCILLA WAS MARRIED, HE WASN'T.

WE WOULD TOUR WITHOUT OUR WIVES.

AND HE WOULD FLY THE WIVES OUT ON ONE OF OUR ANES.

AFTER A WHILE, THAT GETS OLD,

AND IT'S REALLY NOT FAIR TO THEM.

SO AS A CONSEQUENCE, THINGS HAPPENED.

THEY SORT OF BREAK APART AT THE EDGES.

Donna Presley Early: PRISCILLA AND I OFTEN TALKED ABOUT THE LIFE

THAT SHE HAD WITH ELVIS.

OF COURSE THERE WAS ALWAYS WOMEN THWING THEMSELVES AT ELVIS,

AND I THINK THAT DE HER FEEL INSECURE,

BUT SHE HANDLED IT VERY WELL.

THE CAREFREE PARTY ATMOSPHERE OF LIFE ON THE ROAD

SEEMED TO BE REFLECTED IN SOME OF ELVIS' MOVIE ROLES.

Movie narrator: The salty story of a two-fisted guy

who wanted to own his own boat

in the world...

more tg

while every gi on the shore

was trying to own him.

Woman: A Don Juan and Casanova rolled into one.

Put him in a boat, it's girls.

Girls, girls, girls.

I couldn't stand being fooled again.

It's me and it is real,

isn't it?

( thunder )

Movie narrator: Girls, girls, girls.

It's a storm of entertainment that brings down the house.

the ElviPresley musicalsSl

with a whole album full of bra new songs.

Narrator: ELVID PRISCILLA'S MARRIAGE ALSO SUFFERED

FROM THE PRESSURES OF HIS FAME.

IN OCTOBER OF 1973,

THEIR MARRIAGE CAME TO AN END.

THE DIVORCE, AND PRISCILLA'S MANY REASONS FOR LEAVING

WERE SOMETHING ELVIS NEITHER EXPECT

NOR WAS WELL-PREPARED TO HANDLE.

HA NOTHING BAD TO SAY ABOUT PRISCILLA.

I DON'T THINK THAT ANYTHING THAT HAPPENED WAS HER FAULT.

SHE HAD TO PUT UP WITH A LOT OF NONSENSE.

CAN YOU IMAGINE BEING WITH A MAN,

AND HAVING EIGHT GUYS LIVING IN THE SAME HOUSE

WITH THEIR WIVES, THEIR CHILDREN, AND THEIR FRIENDS?

THEY RARELY HAD TIME FOR THEMSELVES.

IT WAS A VERY HARD EXISTENCE FOR ANYBODY,

AND I THINK SHE HANDLED IT VERY WELL.

IT WAS JUST THE WRONG TIME FOR HIM.

I DON'T THINK THE DIVORCE DID A NUMBER.

IT REALLY, REALLY, UM...

IT WOUED HIS SPIRIT.

FROM THEN ON, HE SEEMED TO LIMP THROUGH LIFE.

Narrator: WHEN "FAMOUS FAMILIES" RETURNS,

AMERICA MOURNS THE LOSS

OF EIS AARON PRESLEY.

I WALKED IN, AND LISA SAID,

"DADDY'S DEAD."

SHE WAS NINE-YEARS-OLD.

MY WORLD CAVED IN.

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOUR DREAM DIES

O?

AS FOR ALL OF AMERICA,R TH,

THE MID-SEVENTIES WERE A TIME OF SOCIAL UNREST,

CHANGE, AND UPHEAVAL.

■

THE ROCK-N-ROLL REBEL,OR E,

IT WAS THE YEAR HE TURNED FORTY.

Jerry Schilling: ELVIS' SUCCESS, SOMETIMES, WAS HIS DOWNFALL AS WELL,

BECAUSE INTRODUCING THE MUSIC TO HIS MOVI WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL,

AND THERE WERE SE VERY GOOD FILMS LIKE THAT.

THEN WHEN IT BECAME DUPLICATION OF ONE AFTER THE OTHER,

IF YOU HAVE A GREAT ARTIST,

HE'S GONNA GET BORED.

AND ELVIS REALLY WANTED TO DO BETTER THINGS

LATEIN HIS CAREER.

Narrator: ELVIS WAS STRUGGLING FOR DIRECTION HIS CAREER,

AS WELL AS HIS PRIVA LIFE,

BUT IN 1975, A GLIMMER OF HOPE APPEARED ON ELVIS' HORIZON.

Jerry Schilling: I WAS THERE THE NIGHT THAT BARBARA STREISAND

AND JOHN PETERS CAME TO ASK HIM TO DO A STAR IS BORN.

BARBARA STREISAND WANTED TO COME BACK STAGE,

PEOPLE BACK THERE,

D THEW

AND SO WE WENT INTO A WALK-IN CLOSET,

AND THAT'S WHERE SHE OFFERED HIM A STAR IS BORN,

AND TOLD HIM ABOUT THE CHARACTER,

AND HE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT IT MEANT,

AND HE ACCEPTED RIGHT ON THE SPO

HE WAS SO EXCITED...

AND THE NEXT NIGHT WHEN HE CAME DOWNSTAIRS,

HE WAS IN A ROTTEN MOOD,

BECAUSE THE COLONEL HAD TOLD HIM HE COULDN'T DO THE MOVIE.

NOT TO TAKE THE PART,

COLS

BECAUSE ELVIS WOULD HAVE TO TAKE SECOND BILLING

TO BARBARA STREISAND.

Myrna Smith: ELS REALLY WANTED TO DO THAT FILM,

AND WHEN I SAW THE FILM,

I COULD SEE ELVIS PLAYING THAT PART.

BUT HE NEVER GOT A CHANCE TO PROVE THAT HE COULD ACT.

THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN NEAT TO A ,

BUT IT JUST DIDN'T HAPPEN.

Narrator: IN THE END, THE STARRING ROLE OFFERED TO ELVIS

WAS PLAYED BY KRIS KRISTOFFERSON,

WHO WENT ON TO WIN A GOLDEN GLOBE FOR HIS PERFORMANCE.

WITH HIS FILM CAREER AND HIS MARRIAGE BOTH OVER,

IT BECAME INCREASINGLY OBVIOUS, TO EVEN CASUAL OBSERVERS,

THAT ELVIS PRESLEY WAS A TRBLED MAN.

TO COMBAT HIS GROWING BOREDOM AND DEPRESSION,

FA FRELIS

AND BELIEF SYSTEMS.

Patti Parry: HE LOVED RELIGION.

HE ALWAYS WORE A JEWISH STAR AND A CROSS,

BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT TO GET SHUT OUT OF HEAVEN

ON A TECHNICALITY.

ELVIS RECOGNIZED THAT HIS VOICE, AND HIS ABILITY TO SING,

WAS A GIFT FROM GOD.

ELVIS HAD A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD.

HE CERTAINLY HAD A OF QUESTIO.

I THINK WE ALL DO.

HE WAS A CHRISTIAN,

AND HE LOVED TO GIVE ORY TO GOD.

Larry Geller: ELVIS WAS Y

A CHRISTIAN.

HE WAS RAISED IN THAT FAITH.

YET HIS MIND WAS SO INQUISITIVE.

HCHE WANTED TO LEARN ABOUT OTHER CULTURES, FAMI

HOW OTHER PEOPLE THOUGHT,

HOW OTHER PEOPLE APPROACHED GOD.

I BROUGHT HIM BOOKS ON BUDDHISM, ON HINDUISM, ON JUDAISM.

ONE DAY I WOKE UP, AND I HEARD THE RADIO UPSTAIRS,

AND I WENT UP THE STEPS, IN TOWARD THE PIANO ROOM,

AND I REALIZED IT WASN'T THE RADIO.

F

ELVIS WASITTING AT THE PIANO, BY HIMSELF,

AND HE WAS SINGING "YOU'LL NEVER WALKLONE,"

AND IT WAS SUCH A GREAT PERFORMANCE AT...

IT SCARED ME, AND I STOPPED

BECAUSE I WAS INTERRUPTING SOMETHING.

HE JUST LOOKED UP AND SMILED AND KEPT PLAYING.

ELVIS WAS THE KIND OF GUY WHEN YOU'D CALL HIM "KING,"

HE WOULD POINT UP AND SAY THERE WAS ONLY ONE KING.

THAT'S SAD, BECAUSE TOWARDS THE END OF HIS LIFE,

HE WAS REALLY REACHING OUT FOR WISDOM.

I WOULD SEE ELVIS PRAYING, ON HIS KNEES, CRYING OUT,

"GOD, HELP ME, GOD, GIVE ME WISDOM."

Narrator: DURING THIS SAME DIFFICULT TIME,

RICK AND DAVID STANLEY WERE WORKING FOR ELVIS.

RICK AS A AND DAVID AS A BO.

THEY WITNESSED, FIRST-HAND, DISTURBING CHANGES

IN ELVIS' PERSONAL HABITS ELVIS STARTED OUT WITH HIS PRESCRIBED MEDICATION,

A COUPLE OF SLEEPING PILLS TO GO TO SLEEP,

A COUPLE OF THINGS TWAKE UP...

WELL, TWO WENT TO FOUR, FOUR TO SIX, SIX TO EIGHT,

AND NOW IN '75, '76, 77,

ELVIS WAS RIDDLED THGS.

Rev. Rick Stanley: I REALLY BELIEVE, WHEN HE WAS MARRIED TO PRISCILLA,

THERE WAS A REALM OF ACCOUNTABILITY.

THERE WAS SOME AUTHORITY THERE.

AFTER THE DIVORCE, HE STARTED TO TAKE CONTROL OF HIS LIFE.

HE GOT TO THE POINT WHERE HE WAS CONVINCED

THAT HE COULD NOT BE HAPPY WITHOUT IT.

Narrator: IN SPITE OF HIS OWN ADDICTION TO PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS,

ELVIS STRONGLY DISAPPROVED OF T HIPPIE AND DRUG CULTURE,

AND WAS A STRONG SUPPORTER

OF PRESIDENT NIXON'S ANTI-DRUG CAMPAIGN.

ELVIS WAS FURIOUS WHEN HE'D CATCH ME SMOKING MARIJUANA,

ALTHOUGH HERE'S A GUY WHO'S TAKING SERIOUS MEDICATIONS.

HE WAS ADDICTED,

AND HE KEPT JUSTIFYING IT BY THE FACT THAT THEY WERE PRESCRIBED.

HE WAS LIVING IN DENIAL, LIKE MOST ADDICTS DO.

WHEN YOU'D TRY TO DISCUSS THESE THINGS WITH ELVIS, HE'D SAY,

THAT UNLESS HE MADE RADICAL CHANGES, ELVIS' FRIEN

"DAVID, MY NAME'S ON T

HE COULD LOSE EVERYTHING.

HOWEVER, MOST OF HIS INNER CIRCLE WOULD NOT DARE

TO CONFRONT HIM.

NOBODY GRABBED THOSE TWO-INCH WHITE COLLARS AND SAID,

"BUDDY, THIS IS GOING TO KILL YOU."

BUT A FEW CLOSE FAMILY MEMBERS DID TRY TO HELP.

MY MOTHER DID GO TO ELVIS AND SHE SAID,

"ELVIS, YOU NEED TO STAY HOME,

RELAX, CHECK INTO A HOSPITAL,

TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF,"

BECAUSE HE WAS NOT WELL.

Rev. Rick Stanley: PRISCILLA WAS REALLY CONCERNED.

SHE DIDN'T WANT HIM DOING THAT...

I SAW HER ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION...

EXPRESS CONCERN ABOUT HIM.

Lamar Fike: BACK THEN, THERE WAS NO BETTY FORD CLINIC.

WHEN A PERSON DOESN'T WANT TO STOP DOING ANYTHING,

THEY'RE NOT GOING TOO IT UNLESS THEY STOP FIRST.

EITHER LOSING WEIGHT, QUIT DRINKING, WHATEVER.

YOU HAVE TO DO IT.

HE DIDN'T WANT TO.

New speaker: HIS BLIND SPOT WAS HIS BODY.

IF ELVIS WOULD HAVE TAKEN CARE OF HIMSELF, AND HIS BODY,

LIKE HE TOOK CARE OF HIS FANS

AND THE PEOPLE WHO WORKED FOR HIM,

HE'D BE HERE TODAY.

Narrator: LATE ONE EVENING,

THE NIGHT BEFORE ELVIS WAS SCHEDULED

TO LEAVE ON YET ANOTHER TOUR,

HIS STEP-BROTHER, RICK, HAD A PREMONITIO

SOMETHING WAS WRONG,

AND FELT COMPELLED TO RETURN TO GRACELAND.

Rev. Rick Stanley: WHEN I WENT THROUGH THOSE GATES,

AND WENT TO THE TOP OF THAT HILL,

I SAW THE AMBULANCE...

MY WORLD CAV IN.

BECAUSE ELVIS PRESLEY, BIG BROTHER,OSS, BEST FRIEND,

THE MAN THAT I LOOKED TO, ADMIRED...

ELELFAMOUP

AND I WALKED IN AND LISA SAID,

"DADDY'S DEAD."

SHE WAS NINE-YEARS-OLD.

I WENT IN ANFOFOX W MY DAD,

WONDERFUGUY, VERNON PRESLEY.

HE WAS LYING ON THE FLOO BESIDE HIS MOTHER,

AND HIS MOTHER WAS JUST SITTING THERE

TRYING, PATTING HIM, TRYING TO CONSOLE HIM,

AND THAT SOUND...

AT WAS COMING OUT OF MY FATHER...

IT W...TRAVAIL.

"RICKY, HE'S DEAD, HE'S DEAD."

AND IT JUST...CRACKING

IT WAS THE MOST HAUNTING THING.

ON AUGUST 16, 1977,

ELVIS AARON PRESLEY,

THE MAN WHO HAD GIVEN SO MUCH TO SO MANY,

DIED AT GRACELAND,

OF CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA.

HE WAS ONLY 42-YEARS-OLD.

Myrna Smith: THE DAY THAT ELVIS DIED, WE LEFT BURBANK AIRPORT,

AND I DON'T THINK WE WERE IN THE AIR EVEN AN HOUR,

MAYBE AN HOUR OR SO, AND...

THE PILOT SAID THAT WE HAD A CALL TO TURN THE PLANE AROUND.

WE STOFAFAMON A TOWN CALLED PUEBLO, COLORADO

TO REFUEL AND RETURN TO VEGAS,

AND WE WERE STANDING OUTSIDE THE PLANE,

WALKING AROUND AND WAITING,

AND A FRIEND OF MINE PUT HIS ARMS AROUND ME AND SAID,

"ACT LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED, BUT ELVIS PASSED AWAY."

...

I, FOR ONE, DID...

I BECAME HYSTERICAL,

BECAUSE IT WAS JUST UNBELIEVABLE.

WE WERE SUPPOSED TO SEE HIM THAT NEXT DAY,

AND THEN...

HE'S GONE.

♪( singing "Amazing Grace" )♪

Narrator:FOFOS:S: THE WORLDWIDE, FANS GREETED THE NEWS WITH STUNNED DISBELIEF.

ELVIS PRESLEY'S FUNERAL WAS MODEST AND PRIVATE,

S:S: HIS CLOSEST FAMILY AND FRIENDS. RE

ATTEND ONLY BY

WHILE FLAGS FLEW AT HALF-MAST THROUGHOUT TENNESSEE,

THOUSANDS OF FANS PAID THEIR LAST RESPECTS.

Rev. Rick Stanley: WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOUR DREAM DIES BEFORE YOU DO?

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN...

WHAT YOU'VE LOOKED TO, AND LOVED,ND...

OYAL TO...

IT GOES DOWN BEFORE YOU? ILILIE

I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.

Narrator: THE KING WAS DEAD.

THE QUESTI NOW WAS...

WHO WOULD CLAIM THE THRONE?

AND CARRY ON HIS LEGACY?

IT'S REMARKABLE, HISTORICALLY, L

TO REALIZE HOW CLOSE THE PRESLEY FAMILY WAS TO SELLING GRACELAND.

LIFE, AFTER ELVIS,

WHEN "FAMOUS FAMILIES" RETURNS.

Narrator: WHEN ELVIS DIED IN 1977,

HE LEFT HIS ESTATE TO HIS FATHER, VERNON.

HIS EX-WIFE PRISCILLA WAS 34-YEARS-OLD,

WITH NO JOB EXPERIENCE TO SPEAK OF,

AND A NINE-YEAR-D DAUGHTER TO SUPPORT.

Jack Soden: AS THEY SAY, YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU,

AND ELVIS MUST HAVE

LY BE,

BECAUSE HE THOROUGHLY ENJOYED HIS MONEY.

HE SPE MONEY AS QUICKLY AS HE MADE IT.

HE WASERY GENEROUS TO HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY,

BUT THE FACT IS, WHEN HE DIED,

DID NOT LEAVE A LARGE ESTATE.

MONTHS AND SEVERAL YEARSAMILG

FOLLOWING HIS DEATH,

T

BECAUSE OF TAXES,ION DETERIOR

BECAUSE OF UPKEEP AND MAINTENANCE OF GRACELAND.

Narrator: TWO YEARS AFTER ELVIS DIED,

HIS FATHER VERNON PRESLEY PASSED AWAY,

MOMOUSG PRISCILLA AS THE EXECUTOR

OF ELVIS' NOW-MINISHED ESTATE.

BUT MANAGING THE PRESLEY ESTATE SS

WAS NOT PRISCILLA'S ONLY CHALLENGE.

EVEN BEFORE ELVIS' DEATH,

SHE HAD TO ME THE TRANSITION

INTO A NEW AND INDEPENDENT LIFESTYLE.

DURING THE TIME SHE DATED ELVIS AND WHEN SHE WAS MARRIED TO HIM,

SHE WAS ALMOST LIKE IN A CAGE.

HER WHOLE WORLD WAS JUST ELVIS, AND THAT WAS IT.

SO, AFTEPRISCILLA AND ELVIS DIVORCED,

SHE WENT OUT AND STARTED DATING A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE.

Narrator: THE MAIN MEN IN PRISCILLA'S LIFE

WERE DARK AND HANDSOME, LIKE ELVIS.

HER FIRST ROMANCE, AFTER ELVIS,

WAS WITH KARATE CHAMPION MIKE STONE.

IN 1978, PRISCILLA BEGAN DATING MIKE EDWAR,

AN ACTOR, AND ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR

INTERNATIONAL MALE MODELS IN THE BUSINESS.

PRISCILLA AND MIKE WERE TOGETHER FOR SIX YEARS.

THEN, IN 1984,

A BUDDING SCREENWRITER LYL

FROM BRAZIL.

BUT WHILE PRISCILLA WAS FINDING SOME RESOLUTN

IN HER PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS,

RAISING LISA MARIE REMAINED AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT MATTER.

David Stanley: PRISCILLA ALWAYS LED HER,

AND HER MOTHER WAS VERY PROTECTIVE,

AND I ADMIRE HER FOR THAT,

BUT YOU COULD SEE THAT SHE WOULD DO TNGS TO GET ATTENTION...

REBELLIOUS,

AMAT

KIND OF LIKE ELVIS WAS WHEN HE WAS YOUNGE P P

SHE'S GOT HER FATHER'S TEMPER.

SHE'S GOT HER FATHER'S LOOKS.

WHEN SHE GETS REALLY MAD,

IF I WAS HER MOTHER, I'D DU.

Rev. Rick Stanley: LISA MARIE IS A LOT LIKE HER DADDY.

SH

THAT I WAS MEAN."

AND LISA WAS NEVER MEAN...

LISA IS T THEITED CHILD.

Narror: BY T EARLY 1980'S,

SA MARIE HAD BEGUN TO EXPERIMENT WITH DRUGS,

AND WAS DOING POORLY IN HER CLASSES.

SHE DROPPED OUT OF THE EXCLUSIVE

APPLE HIGH SCHOOL IN LOS ANGELES

DURING HER JUNIOR YEAR.

TO HELP HER DAUGHTER OVERCOME VOENT WITH DRUGS,

NNNND

TO THE ORGANIZATION

IN WHICH SHE, HERSELF, HAD FOUND SO MUCH SUPPORT:

THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY.

Isaac Hayes: SCIENTOLOGY HEED THEM IN A LOT OF WAYS

BECAUSE BEING THE DAUGHTER OF ELVIS PRESLEY

HAS ITS BURDENS,

FANTOLOGY IS SO KEY IN HELPING YOU OE

THE BARRIERS AND THE UPSETS, AND THE CHALLENGES OF

Rev. Rick Stanley: PRISCILLA IS A VERY SPIRITUAL PERSON.

I'M THRILLED ABOUT THAT.

SHE'S ENTLED TO WHAT SHE THINKS,

AND IF IT'S HELPED HER, THAT,

MIMIE

AND FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND,AM

NG TIME

WHEN SHE WENT THROUGH THIS PHASE OF ADDICTION.

rrator: DESPITE OTHER PEOPLE'S SKEPTICISM ABOUT SCIENTOLOGY,

PRISCILLA ENROLLED LISA MARIE

THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY'S PURIFICATION PROGRAM.

THIS WAS A MAJOR TURNING POINT FOR LISA MARIE,

IN TERMS OF CLEANING UP,

ANHEHE PING A HEALTHY, MORE FOCUSEDIFESTYLE.

IN GRATITUDE, LISA MARIE, ALONWITH ISAAC HAYES,

OPENED THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY MISSION OF MEMPHIS,

A LITERACY CENTER IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

SCIENTOLOGY AND THE LITERACY PROGRAM BOTH ENTERED AND SAVED

MY LIFE AND MY SANITY, MANY TIMES,

FROM MY HEART MEMPHIS,

,

THAT I WANTED TO CONTRIBUTE SOMETHING

THAT MEANS SOMETHING TO ME,

AND I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT.

( applause and cheering )

Narrator: IT WAS ALSO AT URCH OF SCIENTOLOGY

THAT LISA MARIE MET DANNY KIO, IEIE ANSPIRING MUSICIAN.

IN 1988, TO THE SURPRISE OF EVERYONE, INCLUDING HER MOTHER,

LISA MARIE MARRIED DANNY,

AND WITHIN FOUR YEAR THE COUPLE HAD TWO CHILDREN,

DANIELLE AND BENJAMIN.

Rev. Rick P P LISA MARIE PRESLEY IS AN INCREDIBLE MOTHER,

AND I COMMEN F FR FOR THAT,LYC

AND HER GREAT LOVE FOR THOSE CHILDREN,

AND DANNY'S GREAT LOVE...

FOR THOSE CHILDREN.

DANNY IS A VERY NICE, YOUNG MAN.

HE'S GOT A FULL PLATE, THERE,

WITH WHO HE WAS MARRIED TO.

Narrat: UNFORTUNATELRERES LISA,

LIKE THAT OF HER PARENTS,

HAN

ENDED IN DIVORCE.

BUT, ALSO LIKE HER PARENTS,

LISA MARIE AND DANNY REMAINED ON GOOD TERMS,

FOR THE KE OF THE CHILDREN.

LISA MAR'S DIVORCE WAS FINALIZED IN MAY OF 1994.

JUST A FEW DAYS LATER, HER FAMILY, FRIENDS,

AND ELVIS FANS AROUND THE WORLD WERE SHOCKED BY E NEWS...

THAT S ED.

THIS TIME, TO NONE OTHERFA ,

MICHAEL JACKSON.

Donna Presley Early: THE FAMILY WAS SHOCKED, I THINK, BASICALLY,

AT LISA AND MICHAEL JACKSON MARRIED,

BUT ALHE, THE FAMIT NDEROOD IT

BE

BOTH GREW UP

IN A FISHBOWL ATMOSPHERE. USUS F

Myrna Smith: I ALWAYS KIND OF REGRET THIS,

BUT I TOOK HER TO SEE HER FIRST JACKSON FIVE CONCERT.

AND SHE WENT BACKSTAGE, AND SHE MET THE JACKSONS.

SO I BLAME MYSELF FOFOTHHOLE THING.

S

David Stanley: IF ELVX X HBEEN ALIVE

NNNN

GOT MARRIED,MOMOUS

WHEA

HE WOULD HAVE HAD A PROBM WITH IT,

BECAUSE, ELVIS WAS NOT A PREJUDICED MAN,

BUT HE DIDN'T BELIEVE IN INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS.

WOULD HAVE BEEN A PROBLEM FOR HIM.

AND THE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN ID ABOUT MICHAEL,

THE ALLEGATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN HUOW HIM,

LYLY

ELVIS WOULD HAVE HAD A REAL PROBLEM WH THAT.

Narrator: BUT AS MUCH AS LISA MARIE WANTED TSUPPORT MICHAEL,

SHE DEVELOERNS ABOUT HOW ALL THE NEGATIVE ATTENTION

WAS AFFECTING HER FAMILY.

RERES

Rev. RicStanley:

TO THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN.

YOU NEED TO THINK ABOU UE OR NOT,

HAVING THE STIGMA PLACED OVER THEM.

FF

AND TH DONFAD IT, AND YOU DON'T REALLY NEED IT,

AND THE NEXT DAY SHE FILED FOR DIVORCE.

Rev. Rick Stanley: PRISCILLA WAS... GLAD IT WAS OVER.

SS

PRISCILLA WAS IN A TOUGH SPOT BEUSE IT WAS HER KID.

@ P PE

X X FA

BUT SHE PRACTICED THE ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT:

"THOU SHALL BE COOL,"

THE WHOLE TIME.

Narrator: COMI UP...

A NEW GENERATION OF PRESLEYS TAKES THE WORLD BY STORM.

Jerry Schilling: LISA MARIE IS A TALENT ON HER OWN.

SHE'AMAMILIERAL PRODUCER, KNWHATSHE'S A WRITER,

AND SHE'S GOT IT.

THE LEGACY LIVES ON,

WHEN "FAMOUS FAMILIES" RETURNS.

RERE WHEN IT COMES TO FAMILY,

:

PRISCILLA PRESLEY HAS PROVEN HERSELF TO BE A DEVOTED MOTHER,

BUT SHE PLAYS MANY OTHER ROLES AS WELL.

IN 1980, PRISCILLA CO-HOSTED THE TV SERIES

"THOSE AMANG ANIMALS."

HC

AND FROM 1983 TO988, SHE STARRED JENNA WADE

ON THE HIT DRAMA SERIES "DALLAS."

PRISCILLA'S FIRST AND FOREMOST AN ARTIST,

AND SHE BRINGS CREATIVITY INTO EVERYTHING SHE DOES.

AND SHE BECAME VERY WELL-ESTABLISHED AS AN ACTSS.,

SHE COMPETED IN AN AUDITION FOR "DALLAS,"

AND SHE WON THE ROLE,

AND THE REST IS HISTORY.

IT WENT ON TO BECOME ONE THE MOST WATCHED SEES

IN THE WORLD.

Narrator: PRISCILLA HAS APPEARED ON THE BIG SCREEN AS WELL,

OPPOSITE LESLIE NEILSON

IN THE THREE "NAKED GUN" POLICE SATIRES.

I WANTED YOU TO KNOW, NOW, I'VE LOVED YOU

HANN

SINCE THE FIRST DAY I MET YOU,

AND I'LL NEVER STOP.

I'M A VERY LUCKY WOMAN.

PRISCILLA HAS A REMARKABLE SENSE OF HUMOR.

C

SHE ACTUALLY HAS A GREAT SENSE OF SPIRIT OF PLAY.

Rev. Rick Stanley: PRISCILLA IS VERY FUNNY,

SHE'S AN "UP" PERSON.

FAMI

SHE LAUGHS AND HAS A GOOD TIME,

D VE ENJOYED THE LESLIE NEILSON MOVIES

S: T

BECAUSE THAT'S HER.

Narrator: BUT WITH ALL HER SUCCESS AS AN ACTRESS,

PRISCILLA HAS ALSO BECOME A RESPECTED BUSINESSWOMAN.

IN 1973, SHE OPENED A WOMAN'S CLOTHING BOUTIQUE

AND LAUNCHFAMO OWN LINE OF PERHC

PRISCILLA'S MOST IMPRESSIVE ACHIEVEMENT, BY FAR, HOWEVER

HAS BELDING VIS PRESLEY ENTERPRISES

IN THE MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR SINESS IT IS TODAY.

MY FATHER WAS EXECUTOR OF THE ESTATE,

WITH SERAL OTHERUSINESSMEN,

AND THE DEAL WAS TO LEAVE THE ESTATE TO LISA,

WHEN MY FATHER PASSED AWAY,C

BUT, THROUX FAMIUTUAL LOVE FOR LISA,

MY DADDY AND PRISCILLA FOUND SOME COMMON GROUND,

AND MY FATHER MADE PRISCILT

THE EXECUTOR OF THE ESTATE WHEN HE PASSED AWAY.S

PRISLLA STEPD IN, AND HAD SOME BUSINESS SAVVY.

SHE REALLY DID A GOOD JOB THERE,

AND TURNED THE PLACE AROUND.

ank Coffey: IRONICALLY, WHEN ELVIS DIED,

HIS ESTATE WAS WORTH THREE MILLION DOLLARS,

■

AND LE THAN HALF OF THAT WAS LIQUID.

SO, THIS ENORMOUS EARNING MACHINE

DIDN'T HAVE MUCH MONEY.

SO PRISCILLA DESERVES A LOT OF CREDIT

FOR HIRING SMART PEOPLE,

AND GETTING THE ESTATE ONTO A SOLID GROUND.

Narrator: TO THIS DAY, ELVIS PRESLEY ENTERPRISES

FIRMLY.

PRISCILLA'S SISTER IS HER PERSONAL ASSISTANT,

AND HER SISTER'S HUSBAND

IS DIRECTOR OF ENTERTAINMENT AND MUSIC PUBLISHING.

NOW THAT LISA MARIE HAS TURNED THIRTY,

SHE OWNS THE COMPANY.

BUT HER MOTHER STILL RUNS THE BUSINESS.

ELVIS PRESLEY ENTERPRISES

OVERHE USE OF ELVIS' VOICE AND IMAGE,

INCLUDING HIS PORTRAYAL IN MOTION PICTURES,

■

STILL PHOTOGRAPHS,

MUSICAL ARRANGEMENTS,

ERT FO,

AND ELVIS MEMORABILIA.

EVERY STEP OF THE WAY,

IN THE GROWTH OF GRACELAND,

AND THE GROWTH OF ALL OF THE ELVIS PRESLEY COMPANIES.

WE HAVE, OVER THE YEARS,

ADDED AUTOMOBILE MUSEUMS,

THE AIRPLANE EXHIBITS...

THAT WILL BE RESTORED AND RE-THEMED IN THE COMING YEAR.

WE HAVE PLANS TO BUILD A MAJOR NEW MUSEUM EXHIBIT FACILITY,

AND PRISCILLA STAYS VERY, VERY INVOLVED IN THAT,

EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.

THIS IS WHERE IT ALL STARTED.

AND, IN CT, IN THIS BUILDING

IS WHERE HE USED TO BUY HIS CLOTHES,

SO, IT WAS JUST A NATURAL.

Narrator: YET EVEN WHILE PRISCILLA MANAGES

THE THRIVING PRESLEY EMPIRE,

SHE AND HER PARTNER OF THIRTEEN YEARS,

MARCO GIRABALDI,

ARE RAISING THEIR SON, NAVARONE.

NO MATR WHERE SHE IS ALL OVER THE WORLD,

THE FAMILY COMES FIRST,

AND D AD

RESPECT .ES

TO BE INVOLVED, SHE IS,

VENTURES AND ACTIVITIES.ITH T

SHE ALWAYS MANAGES TO PUT THE PRIORITIES RIGHT,

AND THAT FAMILY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO HER.

Narrator: BY ALL ACCOUNTS, PRISCILLA'S DAUGHTER, LISA MARIE,

IN HER FATHER'S FOOTSTEPS.

W

SHE SIGNED A RECORDING CONTRACT WITH CAPITOL RECORDS

IN JUNE OF 1998.

HER MUSIC CAREER CAREFULLY,SAG

DEVELOPING AND GUARDING HER TALENT

WITH AN ANXIOUS PUBC.

FEE

Frank Coffey: I WAS IN MEMPHIS FOR LISA MARIE'S DEBUT,

WITH HER FATHER,

WHEN T

AND I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE FANS REACTION

TO THAT DUET WAS UNBELIEVABLE.

THERE WASN'T A DRY EYE IN THE HOUSE,

AND LISA MARIE LOOKED BEAUTIFUL AND SANG BEAUTIFULLY.

I THINK SHE HAS A CHFO STAR.

David Foster: I THINK LISA MARIE PROBABLY WOKE UP ONE DAY AND THOUGHT,

NOW I'M IN MY LATE TWENTIES,

I CAN SING, I'VE GOT A LOT OF TALENT,

I CAN WRITE SONGS...

X

?

THE STUFF THAT SHE HAS BEENRITING

IS VERY, VERY EARTHY...

SLIGHTLY DARK...

BUT ALLY POWEFOX FAYRICALLY,

AND MOODY...

HC

AND, KIN

D PICTURE

THE DAUGHTER OF ELVIS TO BE.

I THINK ELVIS HAD A LOT OF THAT CHARACTER IN HIS VOICE,

A LOT OF PATHOS IN HIS VOICE, TOO.

FA

Jerry Schilling: I'D BEEN IN THE STUDIO WITH LISA,

I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY ABOUT FIVE OR SIX YEARS AGO

TO BE HER MANAGER.

NO MATTER WHO HER PARENTS ARE,

LISA MARIE IS TALENT ON HER OWN.

LYE'S GOT THAT CREATIVITY,

SHE KNFOX WHAT SHE WANTS.

SHE'S A NATURAL PRODUCER; SHE'S A WRITER...

AND SHE'S GOT IT.

Narrator: BUT LISA MARIE ISN'T THE ONLY PRESLEY FAMILY MEMBER

WHO'S LAUNCHING A SINGING CAREER.

ELVIS' FIRST COUSIN, DONNA PRESLEY EARLY,

IS ALSO KEEPING THE PRESLEY MUSICAL LEGA...ALIVE.

WILL NOT GROW OLD 'CAUSE ♪ILIG

♪ HE'S JUST SINGIN' ROCK-N-ROLL ♪

♪ DEVOTION TO ♪

♪ THE FAMILY ♪

♪ PEOPLE LIKE YOU ♪

♪ HE LOVED TO SEE ♪

I WOULD LOVE FOR MY SINGING CAREER

TO GO AS FAR AS IT POSSIBLY CAN.

I'VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT,

FAMO

AND I HAVE A LOT OF PRAYERS AND HOPES

RE

THAT THINGS WILL JUST CONTINUE,

AND JUST GET BIGGER AND BIGGER.

♪ REMEMBER THOSE PRECIOUS MEMORIES ♪

( applause )

Narrator: ELVIS' STEP-BROTHERS HAVE OVERCOME PERSONAL CHALLENGES

FOLLOWING HIS DEATH,

AND NOW LEAD HAPPY, PRODUCTIVE LIVES.

David Stanley: AFTER ELVIS' DEATH I WAS FACED WITH SOME PROBLEMS OF MY OWN...

MY DRUG ADDICTION, ALCOHOLISM

THAT I HAD TO OVERCOME,

AND WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO DO THAT.

AS A RESULT OF DOING THAT,

I HAVE BECOME A TIVATIONAL SPEAKER,

TRAVELING THROUGHOUT THE UNTRY

COMMUNICATING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE IN HIGH SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES,

AND CORPORATIONS,

ON HOW THEY CAN TURN ADVERSITY INTO PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT.

MY BROTHER BLY IS A RACE CAR DRER.

Billy Stanley: MY WIFE IS THE GREATEST THING THAT EVER TOUCHED THIS EARTH,

AND MY DAUGHTER THE SAME Y.

THEY ARE SO SUPPORTIVE OF ME,

AND NOT A DAY GOES BY I DON'T THANK GOD FOR THEM.

David Stanley: MY BROTHER RIC IS A TRUE MIRACLE.

THIS GUY WAS A WILD CHILD.

THEY USED TO CALL HIM "THE WHITE HAVEN RAVEN,"

AND NOW HE'S A SOHERN BAPTIST EVANGELIST,

TRAVELS ALL OVER.

MY FAMILY IS SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAWHAT I DO.

THEY ARE THE PRIORITY.

I SAY IT LIKE THIS:

IF MAMA AIN'T HAPPY, AIN'T NOBODY HAPPY

IF DADDY AIN'T HAPPY, DON'T NOBODY CARE.

SO, I KEEP ROBIN AND THOSE CHILDREN HAPPY.

Narrator: UP NEXT...

THE LEGACY LIVES ON

IN THE HEARTS OF PRESLEY FANS EVERYWHERE.

ELVIS IS STILL VERY MUCH LOVED BY HIS FANS.

THERE'S SOME 500 FAN CLUBS THAT ARE STILL ACTIVE

THROUGHOUT THE WORLD TODAY HERE IN 1998.

Narrator: ELVIS, TODAY...

WHEN "FAMOUS FAMILIES" RETURNS.

Narrator: TODAY, MORE THANHC TWENTY YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH,

THE KING OF ROCK-N-ROLL CONTINUES TO REIGN

IN THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF HIS MANY FANS.

( screaming )

THEFOXA

IES: TDN

SINCE HE FIRST APPEARED ON OUR HORIZON IN 1955.

( screaming and cheering )

I THINK ELVIS IS THE BEST.

ELVIS ROCKS.

LVIS.

Iris Pau-Upp: SOME PEOPLE SAY "FANATICS."

WE'RE NOT FANATICS, WE JUST LOVED THE MAN.

John Dawson: ELVIS IS STILL VERY MUCH LOVED BY HIS FANS.

WE LOVED

THERE'S SOME 500 FAN CLUBS THAT ARE STILL ACTIVE

THROUGHOUT THE WORLD TODAY.

Narrator: FOR DECADES, ELVIS FAN CHA ALL BACKGROUNDS AND NATIONALITIES

HAVE BEEN SHOWING THE KING E EATEST FORM OF FLATTERY,

BY KEEPING THE MEMORY OF HIS PERFORMANCES ALIVE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

THANYOU VERY MUCH.

THE RELT OF ELVIS PRESLEY'S CONTINUED POPULARITY

IS THAT ANNUAL REVENUES GENERATED BY ELVIS MERCHANDISE,

MOVIES,

RECORD SALES,

AND VISITORS TO GRACELAND,

CURRENTLY EXCEED 100 MILLION DOLLARS.

GRACELAND IS THE SECOND MOST-VISITED HOME IN AMERICA,

AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE.

D THE PEOPLE COME FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD...

FROM EVERY COUNTRY.

THEY'VE MADE MORE MONEY OFF OF ELVIS

NCE HE'S BEEN GONE,

THAN THEY DID WHEN HE WAS ALIVE.

Narrator: IN THE END,

T OF THE AMERICAN DREAM.S IS VERY MUCH THE S

Isaac Hayes: WHEN YOU SEE PRES US FAM

A GUY LIKE THAT,

WHO CAME FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS,

AND MAKE IT...

THAT'S THE AMERICAN DREAM.

AND I SAY DREAM OF ANYWHERE.

WE SAY "AMERICAN DREAM,"

BUT IT'S THE HUMAN DREAM.

THE STRUGGLE... THE TRIUMPH...

AND TO MAKE IT.

AND ELVIS DID THAT,

AND HE NEVER FORGOT HIS BEGINNINGS.

Narrator: IT'S THE STORY OF GLADYS AND VERNON PRESLEY,

TWO POOR DAY-LABORERS WHO RAISE THEIR ONLY CHILD

TO BELIEVE HE WAS SOMEONE SPECIAL.

AND HE WAS.

Elvis: ♪ SINCE MY BABY LEFT ME ♪

AMILIES: T

♪ I FOUND A NEW PLACE TO L ♪

♪ IT'S DOWN AT THE END OF LONELY STREET... ♪

New speaker: I THINK ELVIS, AS A PERSONALITY...

HE WAS JUST DIFFERENT.

THERE'S NEVER BEEN ANOTHER PERSON LIKE HI

HE'S JUST ONE AND ONLY.O

OCCASIONALLY SOMEBODY COMES ALONG LIKE THAT,

IN MAYBE SOME OTHER FIELD,

BUT THERE'S NEVER BEEN ANOTHER PERSON

IN THE SINGING/MUSIC FIELD LIKE ELVIS PRESLEY.

Narrator: IT'S THE STORY OF A CHILD OF THE DEPRESSION,

WHO BECAME E KINGS: THE-N-N-ROLL,C

AND WHO USED HIS NEW-FOUND WEALTH THE

TO BUY A MANSION FOR HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS.

Elvis: ♪ ...SO LONELY, I COULD DIE ♪

IT'S ALSO THE STORY

OF PRISCILLA AND LISA MARIE PRESLEY,

TWO STRONG AND TALENTED WOMEN

WHO TOOK WHAT ELVIS LEFT BEHIND,

AND BUILT AN EMPIRE.

New speaker: PRISCILLA KNEW HOW IMPFO FAMILY WAS TO ELVIS.

AND IT WAS IMPORTANT TO HER...

PRESERVING THAT FAMILY FOCUS,

JUST WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO,

AND IT WAS THE NATURAL THING TO DO.

AND ISCILLA AND SA HAVE VERY MUCH CONTIED

THAT FAMILY TRADITION IN ALL THE YEARS.

Narrator: ULTIMATELY, THE STORY OF THE PSLEYS

IS THE STORY OF A FAMILY THAT HAS EXPERIENCED BOTH TRIUMPH...

AND TRAGEDY,

YET SHOWS EVERY SIGN OF CARRYING ITS UNIQUE LEGACY

INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM.

THE BEST OF ADVICE THAT ELVIS EVER GAVE ME WAS:

"NEVER FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM.

NO MATTER HOW SUCCESSFUL YOU BECOME AT WHATEVER YOU MAY DO,

NEVER FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM AND WHO YOU ARE."

ELVIS HAD DEEP ROOTS AND FAMILY VALUES,

AND THAT'S WHAT MADE HIM WHO HE WAS.

Narrator: WHAT IS THIS PRESLEY LEGACY?

ALL AGREE:

IT'S THEIR OWN UNIQUE BLEND OF LOVE,

LOYALTY,

DEVOTION,

CUNPARALLELED SHOWMANSHIP,

AND, OF COURSE,

ROCK-N-RL.

♪ ...WELL IS DOWN AT THE END OF LONELY STREET ♪

CHANNFOX

♪ AT HEARTBREAK HOTEL ♪

THE REAL ELVIS PRESLEY WAS A GOOD AND DECENT MAN,

BUT, MORE IMPORTANTLY,

HE WAS AN AMERICAN MUSICAL GENIUS,

THE GREATEST STAR, ARGUABLY,

IN TERMS OF MUSICAL INFLNCE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY;

THE PROGENITOR, THE CREATOR OF THE REVOLUTION

THAT

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BUT A CULTURAL REVOLUTION.

THAT'S HIS LEGACY.

Elvis: ♪ I'LL BE SO LONELY, BABY ♪

FOX

♪ I'LL BE SO LONELY ♪

♪ I'LL BE SO LONELY ♪

♪ I COULD DIE ♪

Announcer: Elvis has left the building.

FOMIeft ,

and went out the bk with the policemen,

and he is now gone from the buildin

THE LOSS OF ELVIS PRESLEY, AT SUCH A YOUNG AGE,

WAS A TRAGEDY.

I REMEMBER THE SADNESS I FELT WHEN I FOUND OUT

THAT ACA HAD LOST ONE OF ITS LIVING LEGENDS.

BUT IT'S ELVIS' MUSIC THAT CONTINUES

MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH,

F

HIS MEMORY IS VERY MUCH ALIVE,

IN GRACELAND, HIS MUSIC, MOVIES,MILIE

AND IN HIS DAUGHTER, LISA MARIE.

ELVIS PROVED THAT THERE WAS MORE TO ROCK-N-ROLL

THAN JUST MOY, POWER AND FAME.

FOR HIM, IT WAS A MEANS OF EXPRESSING HIS DEEP FEELINGS

ABOUFAMIVE, RELIGION, AND, OF COURSE, FAMILY.