United Arists, 1962, A Mirsch Company Production

Produced by David Weisbart. Directed by Phil Karlson.

* "Kid Galahad" was filmed in Idylwild, California with interior scenes being shot at the MGM soundatage in Culver City.

* Filming bagan in November 1961 and finished on December 22.

* For the fight scenes, Elvis was coached by Mushy Callahan, a former junior welterweight boxing champion.

* The film opened nationally on August 29, 1962 and reached #9 on Variety's top grossing chart.

* Cast; Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Charles Bronson, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Ned Glass, Robert Emhardt, David Lewis, Michael Dante,        Judson Pratt.

* Elvis plays Walter  Gulick, the boxer in Kid Galahad

Songs; King Of The Whole Wide World, This Is Living, Riding The Rainbow, Home Is Where The Heart Is, I Got Lucky, A Whistling tune

Synopsis; Out of the Army and looking for work, Walter Gulick (Elvis) gets a job as a  sparring-partner in Willy Grogan’s (Gig Young) training camp. One day Willy needs a payoff fighter because he owes Otto Danzig a lot of money. Otto is really bad news, and has guys at the camp keeping tabs on new fighters. Willy’s sister Rose (Joan Blackman, who also stars in Blue Hawaii) visists the camp and she and Walter fall in love. Walter wants to earn enough money to start his own car business, but Willy is against his sister getting involved with Walter. Otto forces Willy to put Walter in the ring against a guy who really outglasses him. Otto offers Walter’s trainer Lew Nyack (Charles Bronson) a lot of money to quit his job so that Otto can put his own guy in the corner. 

When Lew refuses, Danzig’s boys start beating Lew up and they brake both hands. Suddenly Willy comes into the locker room before the guys are finished and with Willy’s help they beat those guys. In the big fight, Walter knocks his opponent down, and Willy blesses his marriage to Rose.  

As the disillusioned, slightly corrupted fight promoter in Elvis’ musical drama Kid Galahad, Gig Young offers a sympathetic portrait of an unscrupulous character in this movie. Young won an Oscar for his role in the 1969  movie “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” His life ended in a tragedy when he was found dead with his new bride in their apartment, young apparently shot his wife and then committed suicide.

Original Movie Worn Sweater

From 1962 and the film "Kid Galahad" comes this very rare movie worn sweater that belonged to Elvis's costar Joan Blackman. Each of the 6 main crew on this film had one of these, including Gig Young, Lola Albright, Charles Bronson, etc. There were only 6 of these ever made and this is the only one known to survive the years, as this one was found in Texas and was a give away during the premier showing of the film
and won by a young fan ! I discovered this in my search for more rare movie memorabilia and when I came across this, it had JB written in ink on the tag sewn inside the sweater. I checked with Graceland, as they have the robe and trunks that Elvis wore in Kid Galahad, but they have never seen or have any of these sweaters, a true gem from a great film.

(This item comes from one of my dearest friends Robin Rosaaen aka "Rockin' Robin". She is one of the biggest Elvis collectors in the world)