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4 unusual facts about King Creole


Final Descent

"Trouble" is a cover of an Elvis Presley song recorded for the film King Creole.

God Is the Bigger Elvis

Both Dolores and Elvis would reunite the following year in Michael Curtiz's King Creole.

King Creole

The film was released by Paramount Pictures on July 2, 1958, to both critical and commercial success.

Wallis selected Michael Curtiz, a noted director of the Hollywood studio system whose works included The Adventures of Robin Hood, Yankee Doodle Dandy and Casablanca.


Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 3

Included in this instalment is "Danny", a previously unissued recording from 1958 of what was at one point to be the theme song for Presley's film King Creole (when the film still retained the title of the novel upon which it was based, A Stone for Danny Fisher).

Liliane Montevecchi

In the mid-1950s, she was signed to a contract by MGM, which cast her in secondary roles in such films as The Glass Slipper and Daddy Long Legs, in both of which she was overshadowed by leading lady Leslie Caron, the Jerry Lewis vehicle The Sad Sack, and King Creole with Elvis Presley.


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