Music History Events: Movies
April 5, 1967 Elvis Presley's 24th movie, Double Trouble, premieres in Hollywood.
January 15, 1967 The film The Fastest Guitar Alive, starring Roy Orbison and Sheb Wooley, premieres in New York City.
November 7, 1966 Elvis Presley finishes work on his 23rd film, Easy Come, Easy Go.
September 5, 1966 John Lennon flies to Germany for his role in the movie How I Won the War - the only major non-documentary film he ever appears in. His character wears glasses that he would use as the basis for his distinctive eyewear.
July 11, 1966 Elvis Presley begins filming his 24th motion picture, Double Trouble.
July 6, 1966 Elvis Presley's Paradise Hawaiian Style movie opens nationwide.
June 9, 1966 Elvis Presley's movie Paradise, Hawaiian Style is sneak-previewed in Memphis (it opens nationally a month later).
May 24, 1966 Elvis Presley begins filming his 20th film, Frankie And Johnny, in Hollywood.
March 31, 1966 Elvis Presley's Frankie & Johnnie movie premieres in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
September 30, 1965 Elvis Presley meets Tom Jones for the first time, on the set of the King's Paradise, Hawaiian Style movie. The two become fast friends.
July 29, 1965 The Beatles' second movie, Help!, premieres in London at the Pavilion Theatre, with none other than the Queen attending. Later, manager Brian Epstein and the group attend a post-premiere reception at the Dorchester Hotel.
July 8, 1965 The Dave Clark Five's first movie, Having A Wild Weekend, opens in London. (For American audiences, it's entitled Catch Us If You Can, after their hit of the same name.)
May 28, 1965 Elvis Presley's Tickle Me movie opens nationally.
May 13, 1965 Elvis Presley's sixteenth movie, Tickle Me, premieres in Hollywood. It opens nationally two weeks later.
April 14, 1965 The Elvis Presley/Shelley Fabares movie Girl Happy opens in theaters.
March 12, 1965 In the Bahamas, The Beatles wrap up filming on their second movie, Help!.
February 24, 1965 The Beatles begin shooting their second movie, Help!, in the Bahamas as director Richard Lester films them riding bicycles near the airport.
February 8, 1965 The Dave Clark Five begin filming their movie Catch Us if You Can.
December 6, 1964 The Gerry & the Pacemakers film Ferry Cross The Mersey, a document of the Merseybeat scene, premieres in London. The hit title track was written specifically for the movie.
November 6, 1964 The Hank Williams biopic Your Cheatin' Heart premieres in Nashville for the Country Music Association, featuring George Hamilton as the honky-tonk legend and his son, a 15-year-old Hank Williams, Jr., overdubbing his father's singing.
October 9, 1964 Bobby Darin begins filming his eighth movie, That Funny Feeling (co-starring with wife Sandra Dee), in Hollywood.
October 1, 1964 The Beatles' first film, A Hard Day's Night, becomes the first movie to debut behind the "Iron Curtain" of Communist countries when it is shown in Prague.
August 15, 1964 After the massive success of The Beatles' first film, A Hard Day's Night, United Artists rushes to sign up-and-comers The Dave Clark Five to a film project entitled Catch Us If You Can (which was released in the US as Having A Wild Weekend).
July 10, 1964 The Beatles return to their hometown of Liverpool for a showing of their first movie, A Hard Day's Night. They get a warm welcome, with thousands of fans turning up to see them.
July 6, 1964 The first Beatles' movie, A Hard Day's Night, debuts in London.
June 17, 1964 Elvis Presley's 15th movie, Viva Las Vegas, co-starring Ann-Margret, opens nationally.
May 23, 1964 Elvis Presley's ninth film, Follow That Dream, opens.
April 23, 1964 The Beatles shoot the "Can't Buy Me Love" scene for their movie A Hard Day's Night on a south London athletic field augmented with a helipad.
February 26, 1964 Elvis Presley begins filming his sixteenth movie, Roustabout, in Hollywood.
January 15, 1964 The King and I soundtrack album is certified gold.
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