"Loving You"                                                               

Movie Details

"Loving You" was originally titled "Lonesome Cowboy" and then changed to "Running Wild" . It also was Evis' first colour movie.

* Production began on January 21, 1957, and was completed in early March.

* "Loving You" was based on a story called "A Call From Mitch Miller" by Mary Agnes Thompson.

* Dolores Hart made her film debut in "Loving You." She also appeared in Elvis' Fourth movie "King Creole."

* "Loving You" reached No.7 on Variety's  weekly list of top-grossing films.

Mean Woman Blues	Teddy Bear
Got A Lot Of Livin' To Do	Lonesome Cowboy
Let's Have A Party	Hot Dog

Loving You

Loving You (On Stage Version)

At an outdoor rally where he has been sent to deliver a few kegs of beer, Deke Rivers sings a rock number with the band and the crowd goes wild. Glende, a press agent, and band leader Tex hire him on the spot. Since the band includes Susan, a pretty young singer, Deke signs up. 

With him on board, things start to go really well and soon the band's left it's small-town engagements far behind. Glenda gets him to sign a personal contract for her to represent him, without letting Tex know. The movie ends by Deke, with Susan beside him, accepts a big TV contract and ask Tex and Glende, who now plan to remarry, to represent him.  

Songs;  Got A Lot O' Livin' To Do, (Let's Have A) Party, Teddy Bear, Hot Dog, Lonesome Cowboy, Mean Woman Blues, Loving You

Loving You was the first Elvis Presley film by Hal Wallis, the veteran Hollywood producer  who had signed Elvis to a movie contract the year before. Hal Wallis, a respected veteran of the film industry, worked in Hollywood from the silent era through the 70’s. Of the nine films that Wallis produced starring Elvis, his favorite was King Creole.

He once said that one of the biggest regrets in his career was that he was not able to follow through on his idea for a western starring John Wayne as an old gunfighter  with Elvis as his protégé. Hal Wallis died in 1986.

Dolores Hart made her screen debut in Loving You and also played the good girl in King Creole. According to Elvis, “was the nicest girl I’ve ever met.” It was a shock for Elvis when he heard that Dolores Heart retired from screen acting to become a nun.  

Elvis’ father, Vernon Presley, appeared in two of Elvis’s films, Loving You And Live A Little, Love A Little. Elvis’s mother, Glady’s Presley, also appeared in Loving You. After the death of his mother, Elvis never saw this movie again.

Got A Lot Of Livin' To Do (Reprise)