{"id":4187,"date":"2018-03-31T22:35:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T22:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixtiescinema.com\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2018-03-31T22:35:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T22:35:46","slug":"52-years-ago-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/31\/52-years-ago-today-2\/","title":{"rendered":"52 Years Ago Today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Frankie_and_Johnny-1966-poster.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4188\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Frankie_and_Johnny-1966-poster-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Frankie and Johnny<\/strong><\/em> opened starring Elvis Presley, Donna Douglas, Sue Ane Langdon (who previously worked with Elvis in <em>Roustabout<\/em>), Anthony Eisley, and Nancy Kovack.\u00a0A bit different than the typical Elvis film, <em>Frankie and Johnny<\/em> was based loosely on the classic folk song.\u00a0 Set on a Mississippi gambling-showboat circa 1865, it featured Elvis as Johnny a singer and gambler who loves Frankie (Douglas) but she refuses to marry him until he gives up gambling. Together they perform on a showboat owned by Clint Braden (Eisley). Johnny tries to give up gambling but a fortune teller reveals that a beautiful redhead will soon enter his life and change his luck.\u00a0 Things get complicated when the redhead turns out to be Nellie Bly (Kovack) the former lover of Braden. Frankie becomes jealous of Nellie who is only using Johnny to get Braden to marry her and Braden becomes jealous of Johnny. Amidst this complicated quadrangle, Langdon livens up the proceedings as Mitzie, Frankie\u2019s ditzy lovelorn showgirl friend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/frankie-and-johnny-lg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4189\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/frankie-and-johnny-lg-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI truly enjoyed my part of Mitzi in <em>Frankie and Johnny<\/em>,\u201d says Langdon<em>.\u00a0<\/em>\u201cI had a great time with that role. I didn\u2019t notice any change with Elvis. He seemed pretty much the same\u2014still a very nice guy.\u00a0 Donna Douglas was of interest to him at that time and he was spending a lot of time with her.\u00a0 I just hung out with the guys on the set like I did on <em>Roustabout<\/em>.\u00a0 Whenever you were with Elvis for the most part you were with his entourage.\u00a0 Those guys were always around but they were all very nice.\u00a0 I really had a great time working with Elvis but I don\u2019t think he was that comfortable appearing in movies.\u00a0 He was much more relaxed as a singer on stage&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5yz-uSxZFJU<\/p>\n<p>Read more of my interview with cover girl Sue Ane Langdon in my book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Drive-Dream-Girls-B-Movie-Starlets\/dp\/0786471654\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1522535780&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=drive-in+dream+girls\"><strong><em>Drive-In Dream Girls<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frankie and Johnny opened starring Elvis Presley, Donna Douglas, Sue Ane Langdon (who previously worked with Elvis in Roustabout), Anthony Eisley, and Nancy Kovack.\u00a0A bit different than the typical Elvis film, Frankie and Johnny was based loosely on the classic folk song.\u00a0 Set on a Mississippi gambling-showboat circa 1865, it featured Elvis as Johnny a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}