Video And Now: Your Moment of Elvis
posted by on October 12 at 13:53 PM
I’m actually home sick today, so I’m taking this opportunity to watch Elvis’s 12th (!) movie, 1963’s It Happened at the World’s Fair. It’s by no means a great work of film, but it’s definitely fun, both for the vintage views of Seattle and for Elvis himself, who was still a charming onscreen presence and possessed of a gorgeous voice. I couldn’t find my favorite scene so far on Youtube (which features a long ride on the monorail, an overdubbed sappy song, and, at the very end, a giant stuffed dog nodding to Elvis), but here’s the brilliantly cheesy trailer:
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