Directed by:
Hal KanterCinematography:
Charles LangComposer:
Walter ScharfCast:
Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey, James Gleason, Ralph Dumke, Paul Smith, Yvonne Lime, Dolores Hart, Jerry Hunter, William H. O'Brien (more)Plots(1)
Loving You was the most autobiographical of all Elvis Presley's movies, and, not coincidentally, features the most naturalistic, easygoing performance of his early career. He plays Deke Rivers, a truck driver with a penchant for singing and a raw animal magnetism where women are concerned. He attracts the business interest of publicity agent Glenda Markle (Lizabeth Scott), who sees a potential gold mine in Deke. She hires him to appear with a band that she handles, fronted by aging country & western singer Tex Warner (Wendell Corey), who used to be romantically involved with Glenda and is now a client. Pretty soon he's pulling in bigger crowds and generating more excitement than Tex did during his best days (which drives the older singer to start drinking again), but also a lot more controversy, too. Deke is so provocatively sexual a presence on-stage that some citizens in the southern and border states where the band is working think that what he does is immoral. Girls can't keep away from him, their boyfriends despise what he symbolizes, and their parents are aghast, even as concert promoter Carl Meade (James Gleason) smells a fortune to be made from this boy. Glenda parlays these disputes and a ban on one of Deke's performances into a national television event. Amid all of this, Deke reveals the private, vulnerable side that no one ever knew -- that he's not even Deke Rivers (it was a name he took off a gravestone), but an orphan named Jimmy Tompkins, and that he's never had a home. He also reveals that he's attracted to Glenda, mistaking (with her encouragement) her interest in his talent with a personal involvement, but he's also drawn the the band's female singer, Susan Jessup (Dolores Hart), who could genuinely love him, and offers him a caring family of her own that would accept him. Deke and Glenda's conflicts are eventually straightened out, and Deke gets to say his piece and sing his music on network television. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Elvis Presley
USA
Best movies:
Wild in the Country (1961)
Change of Habit (1969)
Loving You (1957)
Lizabeth Scott
USA
Best movies:
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Loving You (1957)
Dead Reckoning (1947)
Wendell Corey
USA
Best movies:
Rear Window (1954)
The Search (1948)
The Rainmaker (1956)
James Gleason
USA
Best movies:
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Ralph Dumke
USA
Best movies:
The Desperate Hours (1955)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Daddy Long Legs (1955)
Paul Smith
USA
Best movies:
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Loving You (1957)
The Great Race (1965)
Yvonne Lime
USA
Best movies:
The Rainmaker (1956)
Loving You (1957)
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
Dolores Hart
USA
Best movies:
Loving You (1957)
King Creole (1958)
Forever Amber (1947)
Jerry Hunter
Best movies:
Loving You (1957)
The Paleface (1948)
William H. O'Brien
Australia
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Graduate (1967)
The Mysterious Lady (1928)
Kenner G. Kemp
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Limelight (1952)
Jeffrey Sayre
USA
Best movies:
Bon Voyage! (1962)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
North by Northwest (1959)
Chuck Hamilton
USA
Best movies:
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Sunset Boulevard (1950)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Myrna Fahey
USA
Best movies:
Loving You (1957)
Imitation of Life (1959)
House of Usher (1960)
Scotty Moore
USA
Best movies:
Loving You (1957)
King Creole (1958)
Jailhouse Rock (1957)
D. J. Fontana
USA
Best movies:
Loving You (1957)
King Creole (1958)
Jailhouse Rock (1957)
Steve Pendleton
USA
Best movies:
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Joy Stoner
Best movies:
Loving You (1957)
Almira Sessions
Best movies:
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Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Hal K. Dawson
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Teacher's Pet (1958)