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
William Forrest
USA
Best movies:
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Band of Angels (1957)
Harry Cheshire
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Big Country (1958)
Joe Gray
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Buck Young
USA
Best movies:
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Loving You (1957)
Skip Young
USA
Best movies:
Loving You (1957)
WUSA (1970)
The Spider (1958)
Sue England
USA
Best movies:
Loving You (1957)
Funny Face (1957)
Clambake (1967)
Irene Tedrow
USA
Best movies:
The Parent Trap (1961)
Julius Caesar (1953)
Columbo (1971) (series)
James Gonzalez
USA
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Grace Hayle
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Carefree (1938)
Birth of the Blues (1941)
Julius Tannen
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Love Is News (1937)
Mathew McCue
USA
Best movies:
All About Eve (1950)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Steffi Sidney
USA
Best movies:
Teacher's Pet (1958)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Peyton Place (1957)
Jana Lund
USA
Best movies:
Loving You (1957)
Melinda Byron
Best movies:
The Red Pony (1949)
Ten North Frederick (1958)
Loving You (1957)
Nancy Kilgas
USA
Best movies:
Loving You (1957)
Funny Face (1957)
Torn Curtain (1966)
Mike Mahoney
USA
Best movies:
Rear Window (1954)
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Dick Cherney
USA
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Apartment (1960)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Beach Dickerson
USA
Best movies:
Crazy Mama (1975)
Loving You (1957)
The Trip (1967)
Eddie Baker
USA
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
City Lights (1931)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Maida Severn
USA
Best movies:
The Story of Ruth (1960)
Loving You (1957)
Imitation of Life (1959)