“Live a Little, Love a Little” is a typical Elvis Presley vehicle where he, of course, sings, and plays a photographer working two jobs to make ends meet. He becomes involved with an unstable young woman who causes trouble for Elvis, adding to his already problem-filled life, and to the laughs of the movie.
Director Norman Taurog, who was at the helm of nine of Presley’s pictures, did his job well enough as this film was successful at the box office. “Live a Little, Love a Little” would be Taurog’s final collaboration with the King of Rock and Roll.
The passable screenplay was penned by Michael A. Hoey and Dan Greenburg, adapted from Greenburg’s 1965 novel “Kiss My Firm But Pliant Lips.” Presley shares the screen with fellow singing idol Rudy Vallee, whose career was at its height in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Co-star Vallee did not perform in this movie.
Co-stars include Don Porter, Dick Sargent, Sterling Holloway, and Eddie Hodges as the delivery boy. Hodges was a child actor who previously worked with Frank Sinatra on the 1959 film “A Hole in the Head,” singing the duet of “High Hopes” with the Chairman of the Board. There was also a host of girls, girls, girls co-stars, including Michele Carey, Celeste Yarnall, Joan Shawlee, Mary Grover, Emily Banks, and Phyllis Davis.
Cinematographer Fred J. Keonekamp filmed some wonderful scenes around the Los Angeles area, including in Hollywood, Malibu, Marineland of the Pacific, and at the Music Center in downtown L. A. All part of the watchable Elvis movie “Live a Little, Love a Little,” a success at the box office for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
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My Review
“Live a Little, Love a Little” is a typical Elvis Presley vehicle where he, of course, sings, and plays a photographer working two jobs to make ends meet. He becomes involved with an unstable young woman who causes trouble for Elvis, adding to his already problem-filled life, and to the laughs of the movie.
Director Norman Taurog, who was at the helm of nine of Presley’s pictures, did his job well enough as this film was successful at the box office. “Live a Little, Love a Little” would be Taurog’s final collaboration with the King of Rock and Roll.
The passable screenplay was penned by Michael A. Hoey and Dan Greenburg, adapted from Greenburg’s 1965 novel “Kiss My Firm But Pliant Lips.” Presley shares the screen with fellow singing idol Rudy Vallee, whose career was at its height in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Co-star Vallee did not perform in this movie.
Co-stars include Don Porter, Dick Sargent, Sterling Holloway, and Eddie Hodges as the delivery boy. Hodges was a child actor who previously worked with Frank Sinatra on the 1959 film “A Hole in the Head,” singing the duet of “High Hopes” with the Chairman of the Board. There was also a host of girls, girls, girls co-stars, including Michele Carey, Celeste Yarnall, Joan Shawlee, Mary Grover, Emily Banks, and Phyllis Davis.
Cinematographer Fred J. Keonekamp filmed some wonderful scenes around the Los Angeles area, including in Hollywood, Malibu, Marineland of the Pacific, and at the Music Center in downtown L. A. All part of the watchable Elvis movie “Live a Little, Love a Little,” a success at the box office for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.