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Love Me Tender (1956)

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• Title was changed from "The Reno Brothers" to promote the title song sung by Elvis.
  
  
• Of all the movies starring Elvis Presley, this is the only one in which he didn't get top billing. He was billed third, after Richard Egan and Debra Paget.
  
  
• The footage of Elvis singing "Love Me Tender" at the end was shot after preview audiences reacted badly to his character's fate. This new footage created a continuity error as Elvis had dyed his hair black by the time of the additional shooting, while in the movie his hair color was closer to blonde.
  
  

• Elvis' real life backing musicians Scotty Moore, Bill Black and D.J. Fontana were not allowed to play the roles of the band in the movie because according to the casting crew they didn't look like country musicians.
  
  
• Fox contract players Robert Wagner and Jeffrey Hunter were offered Elvis Presley' 's part before Presley got it on loan to Fox from Hal B. Wallis, to whom he was under contract.
  
  
• Elvis Presley is credited as co-writer of the film's four songs, but in fact had nothing to do with writing them; it was just for purposes of royalties.
  
  
• Average Shot Length (ASL) = 9.5 seconds
  
  
• A record number of prints of "Love Me Tender" were struck in 1956 to accommodate the demand for Elvis Presley's movie debut.
  
  
• Extra scenes and lines were added for Elvis's character, which was originally supposed to be a minor role before he got the part.
  
  
• In premieres of the film, fans were screaming so loud that you couldn't hear any of Elvis Presley's lines.
  
  
• In it's opening weekend film went number 2 in Variety's list. Only James Dean film "Giant" had more viewers.
  
  
• Film was produced by 20th Century Fox but still the premiere was in Paramount Theater in Broadway. Thousands of fans were outside of the building on the night of premiere. Huge paperboard with image of Elvis were on outside of the building.
  
  
• Made over 1 million dollar in it's opening weekend.
  
  
• Elvis Presley was later offered to star in director Robert D. Webb’s another film called The Way to the Gold (1957), but Fox refused to pay the $250,000 plus 50 percent of the profits that Elvis' manager asked (they had offered $150,000 plus 50 percent).
  
  

• SPOILER: This is the only movie in which the character played by Elvis dies on-screen.
  
  

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